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Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access...

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Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2021
Subjects:
capital punishment
smugglers
history
suicides
war criminals
execution
traitors
Autopsy
Dissection
Early modern period
England
Europe
Gallows
Germany
Gibbeting
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMK Criminal or forensic psychology
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBZ Public international law: criminal law
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences
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