Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain by James Gregory

Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain

James Gregory

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and th...

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