A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

• अन्य लेखक: Ward, Richard (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015
• श्रृंखला: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• विषय: 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
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...