Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
Peter King
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781137513601
- ISBN-10
- 1137513608
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2015
- Publication date
- 2015-12-16
- Pages
- 212
- Dimensions
- 333x218x19
- Weight
- 402