The hanging tree execution and the English people 1770 - 1868

Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. Some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds then, watched by crowds of thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public u...

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1. Verfasser:	Gatrell, Vic 1941- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1994
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1770-1868 Doodstraf Geschichte Capital punishment > Great Britain > History Executions and executioners > Great Britain > History Hanging > Great Britain > History Hinrichtung Todesstrafe Großbritannien
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