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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

Part of the Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife Book Series

Editors: Ward, Richard

DOI: 10.1057/9781137444011

ISBN: 978-1-349-55234-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 23, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction

Ward, Richard

Pages: 1 –36

[Capital punishment is a historical universal—it has been practised at some point in the history of virtually all known societies and places. That is not to say, however, that it is a historical constant—the use, form, function and meaning of execution has varied greatly across different...
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Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Kelly, James

Pages: 37 –70

[Death by execution was the standard punishment for treasonable and felonious crime in eighteenth-century Ireland. Women who were guilty either of petit treason, of which viricide and murdering one’s master were prime examples, or ‘barbarous murder’ (a serious felony, which embraced infanticide)...
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‘For the Benefit of Example’: Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720–1830

Poole, Steve

Pages: 71 –101

[In the summer of 1818, two young men, John Chennel and William Chalcraft, were bundled onto a cart and taken in procession to Godalming meadows on the banks of the Thames to be hanged for the murder of Chennel’s father and his elderly housekeeper. Although it was less than four miles from the...
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The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

Dyndor, Zoe

Pages: 102 –125

[In the late 1740s a group of smugglers known as the Hawkhurst gang committed a number of violent crimes that included several brutal murders. At least 75 of the gang were subsequently hung or transported for smuggling, robbery and murder. Of those in receipt of the death sentence, 14 were...
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Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as Seen Through Eighteenth-Century French Executions

Bastien, Pascal

Pages: 126 –146

[Criminal justice and public executions have been an important subject of research for historians over the last 50 years, as the history of mentalities met historical anthropology and the figures proposed by social history were joined to the concepts of ceremony, rituals and rites of passage. The...
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The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilising the Early Modern Suicide Corpse

Kästner, Alexander; Luef, Evelyne

Pages: 147 –169

[The history of suicide in the Western world is in many ways the history of an obsession with the suicide corpse. The suicide’s dead body was a fiercely contested object, for intentional self-murder was considered to be both an atrocious crime and a heinous sin. But since not every suicide was...
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Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Anderson, Clare

Pages: 170 –198

[This chapter will explore the history of execution and its aftermath across the nineteenth-century British Empire. It will bring together in a single frame of analysis a diversity of ideas about and different practices of capital punishment, in order to reflect upon the relationship between...
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Strangled by the Chinese and Kept ‘Alive’ by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism

Chen, Song-Chuan

Pages: 199 –219

[In 1784, the supercargoes of the English East India Company (EIC) — those who travelled with the ships to manage the Company’s trade in China—sent the following report to the Court of Directors of the Company in London: ‘It is with great concern we inform the Honble [honourable] Court that in...
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Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c. 1870–2000

Hynd, Stacey

Pages: 220 –248

[There are a number of tensions which have shaped the evolution of capital punishment and the treatment of executed bodies in Africa from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. First, there are the differences between African and colonial or Western attitudes to death and the body.1 The...
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Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals

Sharples, Caroline

Pages: 249 –271

[In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Allies prosecuted several thousand former Nazis for war crimes and crimes against humanity. By 1949, 5,025 convictions had been secured in the Western occupation zones of Germany alone, with around 500 men and women subsequently executed by Britain,...

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