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| #8603734 in Books | 2008-07 | Original language:English | 9.25 x6.25 x1.00l,1.38 | File type: PDF | 230 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Witnesses to the Scaffold|By Book Reviewer|From Urban History, May 2009: "Why," asks Simpson, in the light of rapid social and moral progress evident during the Victorian age, was the `barbarity' of a public hanging so widely observed and tolerated? Why did the sight of a dangling corpse exert such a hypnotic, uncontested cross-class appeal for so long, and what was the co
England in the first half of the 19th century is frequently characterized as a society supporting quite dramatic reforms in the penal law. Between the beginning of the century and the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, the number of capital crimes was reduced from several hundred to no more than a handful and only murderers were later hanged with any regularity. There was a strong movement for the total abolition of capital punishment and bills to outlaw the death pena...
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