A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900Race and the Reprisal of Public Hangings
A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900: Race and the Reprisal...
Anderson, Steven
2020-09-03 00:00:00
[The trend in Australia was to make executions more private and discreet. This narrative is correct albeit for one major exception—the reintroduction of public executions for Indigenous offenders in South Australia and Western Australia. The ‘value’ of an Indigenous execution was in its perceived ability to pacify resistance to colonisation. It led to a modulated execution ceremony on the frontier—a hanging at the site of the crime in front of the Indigenous offender’s own people. These alterations were made in the hope that it would better communicate the lesson of capital punishment to uncooperative Indigenous populations. European assumptions of Indigenous Australian intellect, temperament and behaviour caused them to believe that ‘terror’ was an essential component of punishing their wrongdoing. Queensland also modulated execution ceremonies owing to race after they became private—not just for Indigenous offenders, but for those of Asian and Pacific Islander backgrounds as well.]
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A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900Race and the Reprisal of Public Hangings
[The trend in Australia was to make executions more private and discreet. This narrative is correct albeit for one major exception—the reintroduction of public executions for Indigenous offenders in South Australia and Western Australia. The ‘value’ of an Indigenous execution was in its perceived ability to pacify resistance to colonisation. It led to a modulated execution ceremony on the frontier—a hanging at the site of the crime in front of the Indigenous offender’s own people. These alterations were made in the hope that it would better communicate the lesson of capital punishment to uncooperative Indigenous populations. European assumptions of Indigenous Australian intellect, temperament and behaviour caused them to believe that ‘terror’ was an essential component of punishing their wrongdoing. Queensland also modulated execution ceremonies owing to race after they became private—not just for Indigenous offenders, but for those of Asian and Pacific Islander backgrounds as well.]
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