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The execution narrative was a popular genre in early modern England. This facsimile edition draws together a representative selection of texts to show the evolution of the genre from the late sixteenth century to the end of public execution in England nearly 300 years later.
Contents
Volume 8 'Moral Lesson of the Gallows', Punch (1846); 'Exeter Hall Cant about Humanity', Satirist (1846); The Groans of the Gallows, or the Past and Present Life of William Calcraft, the Living Hangman of Newgate (1846); 'Is Capital Punishment Justifiable, or No?', The Times (1846); 'Mr Ewart on the Seductive Influence of Hanging', John Bull (1847); W H Maxwell, 'The Last Scene of the Condemned: By and Eye-Witness', Bentley's Miscellany (1849); 'The Proper Time for Public Executions', Punch (1849); 'The Annual Controversy on Capital Punishment', The Times (1850); 'The Question of Capital Punishment can Hardly be said to be Mooted in this Country ...', The Times (1853); 'Mr Bright, MP, on Capital Punishment', The Times (1856); 'Murder and Capital Punishment', John Bull (1856); William Ewart, The Expediency of Maintaining Capital Punishment (1856); 'Capital Punishment and Public Executions', The Times (1857); Charles Neate, Considerations on the Punishment of Death, (1857), excerpt; Charles Phillips, Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments (1858), excerpts; Rev J W Watkin, A Brief Reply to ...'Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishment' (1858); Lord Hobart, On Capital Punishment for Murder (1861); 'Garotting and Gallows-Cure', Punch (1862); 'The Public Execution of Criminals', Daily News (1863); 'Insanity and Capital Punishment', The Times (1864); H M, 'Capital Punishment', Bentley's Miscellany (1864); Philander, Capital Punishment: Is it Defensible? (1865), excerpt; Shall the Murderer be Hanged? Reflections on Capital Punishment: by a Barrister of the Middle Temple (1865); Alfred S Dymond, The Law on Trial (1865), excerpt; 'Capital Punishment within Gaols', The Times (1865); 'The Law of Capital Punishment Amendment Bill has Emerged very Mutilated...', The Times (1866); James C L Carson, Capital Punishment is Murder Legalized (1866), excerpts; William Tallack, Analysis and Review of the Blue Book of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment [c.1866]; Robert Jermyn Cooper, On Capital Punishment, and the Extreme Danger of Relaxing or Modifying the Law in Cases of Murder, or Death by Violence (1867)
