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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Main Author:	King, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Subjects:	History. Great Britain > History. Civilization > History. Social history. Crime > Sociological aspects. Cultural History. History of Britain and Ireland. Crime and Society. History of Science. Social History.
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51361-8
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