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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse PDF Author: Richard Ward
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137444010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.