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

by James Gregory

By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had been reduced to murder, yet the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment.

Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory examines abolitionist strategies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135016349X
• ISBN13: 9781350163492
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"