Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
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, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences f...
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| description | 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, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually put into practice. After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834. It concludes that the Act, by creating differentiation in levels of penalty, played an important role within the broader capital punishment system well into the nineteenth century. While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historians have extensively studied the ‘Bloody Code’ and the resulting interactions around the ‘Hanging Tree’, they have largely ignored an important dimension of the capital punishment system – the courts extensive use of aggravated and post-execution punishments. With this book, Peter King aims to rectify this neglected historical phenomenon. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-573752023-12-20T16:25:01Z Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England Peter King K5000-5582 history of crime medical humanities capital punishment bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking 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, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually put into practice. After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834. It concludes that the Act, by creating differentiation in levels of penalty, played an important role within the broader capital punishment system well into the nineteenth century. While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historians have extensively studied the ‘Bloody Code’ and the resulting interactions around the ‘Hanging Tree’, they have largely ignored an important dimension of the capital punishment system – the courts extensive use of aggravated and post-execution punishments. With this book, Peter King aims to rectify this neglected historical phenomenon. 2021-02-12T00:28:03Z 2021-02-12T00:28:03Z 2017-11-23 15:35:22 2017 book 24597 0 9781137513618 9781137513601 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57375 eng Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137513601 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-137-51361-8 Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51361-8 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51361-8 d27cd9b0-53e1-403f-a4c8-b180427f6be6 9781137513618 9781137513601 212 open access |
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