The most celebrated and influential history of execution in England, V.A.C. Gatrell’s The Hanging Tree (Oxford, 1994), uses a survey of execution rates to make two very striking and seemingly persuasive assertions. First, more people were being hanged in early nineteenth-century England than at any time since the early modern era; and second, that the end of capital punishment came far more suddenly than previous studies have recognized. This article acknowledges and extends the importance of Gatrell’s first insight, while arguing that he nevertheless both understates the complexity of developments and overstates the suddenness with which both the letter and the practice of capital punishment were abandoned. It does so through a careful rec...
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eightee...
The Murder Act (1752) is an infamous piece of penal legislation, known as the Bloody Code. It create...
[From introduction] This chapter will explore the history of execution and its aftermath across the ...
This article presents the most detailed and accurate accounting to date of capital convicts at the O...
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution ...
The changing presentation of punishment, in particular execution, has been at the heart of much crim...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this ...
Some form of capital punishment has been practiced for as long as there has been recorded history. E...
The movement for the abolition of capital punishment is righty associated with the writers of the En...
This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/744298
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides ...
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides ...
Capital punishment is an historical universal — it has been practiced at some point in the history o...
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murde...
Early nineteenth-century Britain witnessed rising numbers of offenders facing capital punishment and...
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eightee...
The Murder Act (1752) is an infamous piece of penal legislation, known as the Bloody Code. It create...
[From introduction] This chapter will explore the history of execution and its aftermath across the ...
This article presents the most detailed and accurate accounting to date of capital convicts at the O...
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution ...
The changing presentation of punishment, in particular execution, has been at the heart of much crim...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this ...
Some form of capital punishment has been practiced for as long as there has been recorded history. E...
The movement for the abolition of capital punishment is righty associated with the writers of the En...
This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/744298
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides ...
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides ...
Capital punishment is an historical universal — it has been practiced at some point in the history o...
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murde...
Early nineteenth-century Britain witnessed rising numbers of offenders facing capital punishment and...
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eightee...
The Murder Act (1752) is an infamous piece of penal legislation, known as the Bloody Code. It create...
[From introduction] This chapter will explore the history of execution and its aftermath across the ...