The British execution
Banks, Stephen2013
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Details the history of formal execution in Britain, examining the fates of the grandest monarchs, the highest-profile gentlemen, the most learned heretics and the most petty of criminals. An illustrated introduction to the death penalty and the means of capital punishment in England since Tudor times. Executions have played a crucial - if grisly and controversial - part in British history and provided the bloody climax to many a life, from Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I and Dick Turpin to untold thousands of anonymous wretches whose names are now forgotten. With the help of numerous illustrations, Stephen Banks details the history of formal execution in Britain, examining the fates of the grandest monarchs, the highest-profile gentlemen, the most learned heretics and the most petty of criminals. He looks also at the crowds, spectacle and grim pageantry that surrounded these events, helping us to understand their morbid but undeniable fascination and detailing the process that led to capital punishment's abolition in Britain.
Main title:
The British execution / Stephen Banks.
Author:
Banks, Stephen, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Shire Publications, 2013.
Collation:
56 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Shire library ; no. 744.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Fatal PerformancePunishing the BritishThe Creatures of the ScaffoldThe Slow Death of HangingFurther ReadingPlaces to VisitIndex
ISBN:
9780747812425 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.660941364.66
Local class:
K364 BAN
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1084923