"This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the "Bloody Code" and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and com

This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the 'Bloody Code' and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comp

Charts the history of execution laws and practices in the 'Bloody Code' era and its extraordinary transformation by 1900.

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessential British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this cou