Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England /
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, disse...
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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Edice: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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On-line přístup: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51361-8 |
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Obsah:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752
- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation
- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834
- Chapter 5. Conclusion
- Index.