By Richard Ward
It is a bankruptcy from A worldwide heritage of Execution and the legal Corpse edited by way of Richard Ward. This bankruptcy is offered open entry below a CC via license.
Capital punishment is an old common — it's been practiced sooner or later within the heritage of almost all identified societies and areas. that's not to assert, although, that it's an historic consistent — the use, shape, functionality and that means of execution has various significantly throughout diverse ancient contexts. this can be likewise real for a tremendous — even supposing really overlooked — point of capital punishment: the destiny of the legal physique after execution. This bankruptcy is an advent to the amount.
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86. See, in particular, Philippe Ariès, The Hour of our Death (Harmondsworth, 1983); Clare Gittings, Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England (London, 1984); Vanessa Harding, The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670 (Cambridge, 2002); Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings (eds), Death in England: An Illustrated History (Manchester, 1999), Ch. 6–8; McManners, Death and the Enlightenment; Sarah Tarlow, Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2011).
109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 35 London Evening Post, 21 March 1761. Wilf, ‘Anatomy and Punishment’, 517, 522. Evening Advertiser, 16 March 1758; Banner, The Death Penalty, p. 80. Garland, ‘Modes of Capital Punishment’. King, ‘Hanging not Punishment Enough’. See Steve Poole’s chapter in this volume and idem, ‘“A Lasting and Salutary Warning”: Incendiarism, Rural Order and England’s Last Scene of Crime Execution’, Rural History 19 (2008), 163–77. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree, pp. 315–21. Spierenburg, The Spectacle of Suffering, pp.
Acknowledgement The author would like to acknowledge that this chapter forms part of a wider research project, Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse, which is generously funded and made available open access by the Wellcome Trust (grant number 095904/Z/11/Z). Notes 1. Randall McGowen and Daniel Gordon, ‘Introduction’, Historical Reflexions/ Réflexions Historiques 29 (2003), 190. 2. J. A. Sharpe, Judicial Punishment in England (London, 1990), p. 28; Barbara A. Hanawalt, Crime and Conflict in English Communities (London, 1979).