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

ISBN: 135016349X

ISBN13: 9781350163492

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

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 there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities...

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