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First published in 2010. The execution narrative was a popular genre in early modern England. This facsimile edition draws together a representative selection of texts to show the evolution of the genre from the late sixteenth century to the end of public execution in England nearly 300 years later. Volume 8, Part II includes the area and commentary on Capital Punishment.

Table of Contents:
Volume 8 '"Moral Lesson" of the Gallows', Punch (1846); 'Exeter Hall Cant about Humanity', Satirist (1846); The Groans of the Gallows, or the Past and Present Life of William Calcraft, the Living Hangman of Newgate (1846); 'Is Capital Punishment Justifiable, or No?', The Times (1846); 'Mr Ewart on the Seductive Influence of Hanging', John Bull (1847); W H Maxwell, 'The Last Scene of the Condemned: By and Eye-Witness', Bentley's Miscellany (1849); 'The Proper Time for Public Executions', Punch (1849); 'The Annual Controversy on Capital Punishment', The Times (1850); 'The Question of Capital Punishment can Hardly be said to be Mooted in this Country ...', The Times (1853); 'Mr Bright, MP, on Capital Punishment', The Times (1856); 'Murder and Capital Punishment', John Bull (1856); William Ewart, The Expediency of Maintaining Capital Punishment (1856); 'Capital Punishment and Public Executions', The Times (1857); Charles Neate, Considerations on the Punishment of Death, (1857), excerpt; Charles Phillips, Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments (1858), excerpts; Rev J W Watkin, A Brief Reply to ...'Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishment' (1858); Lord Hobart, On Capital Punishment for Murder (1861); 'Garotting and Gallows-Cure', Punch (1862); 'The Public Execution of Criminals', Daily News (1863); 'Insanity and Capital Punishment', The Times (1864); H M, 'Capital Punishment', Bentley's Miscellany (1864); Philander, Capital Punishment: Is it Defensible? (1865), excerpt; Shall the Murderer be Hanged? Reflections on Capital Punishment: by a Barrister of the Middle Temple (1865); Alfred S Dymond, The Law on Trial (1865), excerpt; 'Capital Punishment within Gaols', The Times (1865); 'The "Law of Capital Punishment Amendment Bill" has Emerged very Mutilated...', The Times (1866); James C L Carson, Capital Punishment is Murder Legalized (1866), excerpts; William Tallack, Analysis and Review of the Blue Book of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment [c.1866]; Robert Jermyn Cooper, On Capital Punishment, and the Extreme Danger of Relaxing or Modifying the Law in Cases of Murder, or Death by Violence (1867)

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  • ISBN-13: 9781000559040
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 398
  • ISBN-10: 1000559041
  • Publisher Date: 17 Dec 2021
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 398

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