The Lesson of the Scaffold: The Public Execution Controversy in Victorian England |
Contents
THE BLOODY CODE | 27 |
SOCIETIES | 54 |
ATTEMPTS IN PARLIAMENT TO ABOLISH | 98 |
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23 February abolish capital punishment abolish public executions abolition of capital abolition of public abolitionists Beccaria Beggs Bentham Bill Bishop of Oxford Broadside Calcraft capital punishment Charles Dickens Commission on Capital Committee on Capital condemned convicted Courvoisier crime criminal law criminal-law reform crowd cutions death penalty debate deterrent Dickens's Dymond Eclectic Review Edward Gibbon Wakefield effect England English favour Fenian gallows Hansard Hibbert Home Office Home Secretary Horsemonger Lane Gaol House of Commons House of Lords ibid John Bright juries justice letters London ment Morning Herald Muller murder Newgate newspapers Parliament Parliamentary Papers Peel persons police prison walls private executions public exe public executions public hangings public opinion Punishment of Death Punishment Within Prisons radical Radzinowicz Report Romilly Royal Commission Russell scaffold scene Select Committee sentence sheriffs shillings Sir George Grey Society spectators Tallack thought tion voted Wakefield William Ewart witness wrote