Lesson of the Scaffold by David D Cooper - 1974: The public execution controversy in Victoria England

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Content: The movement to abolish public executions in Victorian England is still treated as part of the movement for the abolition of capital punishment. Yet the struggle to rid the nation of public display of the death penalty and an identity and history of its own. The condemnations of public executions were often eloquent literary expression against cruel forms of punishment. Numerous members of parliament prodded their fellow members to legislate the public gallows out of existence. Newspapers and journals exposed the horror of public execution and aroused public opinion against them.

212 pages, references, bibliography, index.
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