Punishing the criminal corpse, 1700-1840: aggravated forms of the death penalty in England

"This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments,...

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