Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England

• Yazar: Peter King (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• Seri Bilgileri: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• Konular: history of crime; medical humanities; capital punishment
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...