![]() This book is the first to explore what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies (rather than what a few famous men thought and wrote about them). But how did those who watched, read about, or ordered these strangulations feel about the terror and suffering inflicted in the law's name? What kind of justice was delivered, and how did it change? Clearly the gallows loomed over much of social life in this period. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public until 1868. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 17. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series. ![]() Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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