The Hanging tree : execution and the English people, 1770-1868 / V A C Gatrell.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Capital punishment -- History.

Capital punishment -- Great Britain -- History.

Executions and executioners -- Great Britain -- History.

Hanging -- Great Britain -- History.

Introduction

Part I: The scaffold and the crowd

1. Hanging people

2. Death and the scaffold crowd

3. Carnival or consent

Part II: The plebeian texts

4. Scaffold culture and flash ballads

5. Broadsides and the gallows emblem

6. The prerogative of mercy and the practices of deference

Part III: The limits of sensibility

7. Sympathy and the polite classes: arguments and interpretations

8. Watching from curiosity

9. Anxiety and defence

10. Executing 'social others

11. Executing traitors

Part IV: Public opinion

12. Opinion and emotion

13. Wronged women: the stories of Sarah Lloyd and Eliza Fenning

14. Piety and Benevolence

15. Fabricating opinion

16. Appealing for justice

Part V: Mercy, justice, and community

17. The rape of Elizabeth Cureton: A Microhistory

Part VI

18. Furred Homicides, sable, bigots: the judges

19. Qualities of justice

20. The king in his council

21. Mercy and Mr. Peel.

Includes bibliographical references.

0198204132

xix, 634 p. : ill ; 24 cm