A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

• Other Authors: Ward, Richard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• Subjects: General & world history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Criminal or forensic psychology; International criminal law; Criminal law & procedure; capital punishment; smugglers; history; suicides; war criminals; execution; traitors
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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. This book has two open ac...