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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.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752.- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation.- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.- Index

Punishing the Criminal Corpse 17001840 Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 12/16/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781137513601, 978-1137513601
      ISBN10: 1137513608

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      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.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752.- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation.- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.- Index

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