Four Insightful Books on Execution and the Death Penalty
Victorian and Edwardian Perspectives on Capital Punishment, Justice, and Penal ReformBy Gaston Leroux, Horace Bleackley, James Berry, Albert Hartshorne
Length22h 26m
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Four Insightful Books on Execution and the Death Penalty gathers historical inquiry, criminological observation, memoir-like testimony, and sensational yet probing narrative around the state's gravest punishment. Its range moves from the public spectacle of the scaffold to the administrative routines, moral anxieties, and social myths surrounding capital punishment. Accounts of notable executions and reflections on the machinery of hanging give the volume particular force, while its differing registers—documentary, reflective, historical, and dramatic—situate it within a long literary tradition of writing about crime, justice, and public feeling. The contributors bring complementary relations to this charged subject. Gaston Leroux's experience in crime reporting and popular narrative, Horace Bleackley's historical sensibility, James Berry's perspective shaped by the practical world of execution, and Albert Hartshorne's antiquarian attention to penal custom collectively illuminate capital punishment as both institution and cultural symbol. Their voices emerge from the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century preoccupation with criminality, reform, urban spectatorship, and the contested authority of the modern state. This volume is recommended for readers of legal history, criminology, social history, and crime literature. By placing contrasting perspectives in dialogue, it offers an unusually broad education in the rhetoric, ritual, and human consequences of execution.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
Length22 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Experiences as an Executioner
2INTRODUCTION.
3CHAPTER IV. My Method of Execution. CALCULATIONS AND APPARATUS.
4CHAPTER VI. Other Methods of Execution.
5CHAPTER IX. From the Murderer’s point of view.
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6CHAPTER XII. The Press and the Public.
7Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
8PREFACE
9THE UNFORTUNATE BROTHERS THE CASE OF ROBERT AND DANIEL PERREAU AND MRS MARGARET CAROLINE RUDD, 1775-6
10THE KING’S ENGRAVER THE CASE OF WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND, 1783
11A SOP TO CERBERUS THE CASE OF GOVERNOR WALL, 1782-1802
12THE KESWICK IMPOSTOR THE CASE OF JOHN HADFIELD, 1802-3
13BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HADFIELD CASE
14Hanging in Chains
15PREFACE.
16Chapter IV.
17Chapter IX.
18The Dark Road: further adventures of Chéri-Bibi
19CHAPTER I
20CHAPTER VI
21CHAPTER IX
22CHAPTER XIV
23CHAPTER XVII
24CHAPTER XXII
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