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PALGRAVE HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE CRIMINAL COR...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study
of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to
date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources  it takes
the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It
introduces them to several of the malefactors who faced the hangman's noose and explores the
traditional hallmarks of the spectacle of the scaffold. It demonstrates that the period between
1740 and 1834 was one of discussion  debate and fundamental change in the use of the death
sentence and how it was staged in practice. In addition  the study provides an innovative
investigation of the post-mortem punishment of the criminal corpse. It offers the reader an
insight into the scene at the foot of the gibbets from which criminal bodies were displayed and
around the dissection tables of Scotland's main universities where criminal bodies were used as
cadavers for anatomical demonstration. In doing so it reveals an intermediate stage in the
long-term disappearance of public bodily punishment.

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