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Execution : A History of Capital Punishment in Britain by Simon Webb is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Execution : A History of Capital Punishment in Britain about?
Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. This book explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simon Webb
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780752464077
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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