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Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

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By (author): Simon Webb

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history. This carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to those interested in the history of British executions.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2011
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780752464077

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