TY - BOOK AU - Ward,Richard AU - Ward,Richard TI - A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse T2 - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife SN - 9781137443991 PY - 2015/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan [Imprint] KW - Capital punishment KW - History KW - Criminals KW - Death KW - Executions and executioners KW - Criminels KW - Mort KW - Histoire KW - Peine de mort KW - fast KW - Crime KW - ukslc KW - Criminal law and procedure KW - bicssc KW - Criminal law: procedure & offences KW - thema KW - Criminal law: procedure and offences KW - Criminal or forensic psychology KW - Criminal procedure KW - General & world history KW - General and world history KW - History: earliest times to present day KW - History: specific events & topics KW - History: specific events and topics KW - Humanities KW - International criminal law KW - International law KW - Law KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law KW - Laws of Specific jurisdictions KW - Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 KW - Penology & punishment KW - Psychology KW - Public international law: criminal law KW - Public international law KW - Social & cultural history KW - Social and cultural history KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Criminology KW - bisacsh KW - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences KW - Society and Social Sciences KW - Capital Punishment KW - history KW - capital punishment KW - execution KW - smugglers KW - suicides KW - traitors KW - war criminals N1 - Free-to-read N2 - Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32156 ER -