Table of Contents

The Fatal Performance
Punishing the British
The Creatures of the Scaffold
The Slow Death of Hanging
Further Reading
Places to Visit
Index

Promotional Information

An illustrated introduction to the death penalty and the means of capital punishment in England since Tudor times.

About the Author

Stephen Banks is a university lecturer and director of the Forum for Legal and Historical Research at the University of Reading and his main research interests are in law, anthropology and cultural history, with a particular focus on violence and the relationship between law and honour culture. He also wrote Duels and Duelling for Shire.