Download or read book Punishments of Former Days written by Ernest W. Pettifer and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1913, this fascinating volume presents a detailed history and analysis of punishment throughout history, exploring in detailed historical enforcement and the various methods used to punish people. “Punishments of Former Days” is highly reconnected for those with an interest in the history and development of punishment, and it is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Contents include: “Crime and Punishment in the 18th Century”, “Prisons in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries”, “Children and Punishment”, “Outlawry”, “The Ordeal”, “Benefit of Clergy”, “Sanctuary”, “A Yorkshire Sanctuary”, “Deodands”, “The Gallows and the Gibbet”, “Hanging at Tyburn”, “The Pillory”, “The Stocks”, “The Ducking Stool”, “Whipping”, “Mutilation”, “Burning to Death”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Punishments of Former Days written by Ernest William Pettifer and published by Charles River Books. This book was released on 1939 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book written in 1939 and later discovered and rescued by Waterside Press - that gives a detailed account of the often barbaric or shameful punishments used in former times. Since this book was first published in the 1950s the description it contains of the history of crime and punishment in Britain over the previous 200 years or so has attracted interest across a wide spectrum. The work was reprinted in 1992 by Waterside Press having been out of print for decades. The contents cover a wide range of historic punishments from outlawry to the ducking stool, the pillory, stocks and whirligig to the branding iron and scold's bridle. From mutilation and torture to sanctuary and the emergence of private and then public prisons this is an essential addition to any criminal justice collection - imbued as it is by the comments of the author from the perspective of his own era, which provides for fascination in itself. Printed in the original style and format - together with a large number of t

Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Earle and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Curious Punishments of Bygone Days" by Alice Morse Earle. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Download or read book The History and Results of the Present Capital Punishments in England written by Humphry William Woolrych and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was published in 1896. It is a catalog of early American crimes and their penalties, with chapters on the pillories, stocks, the scarlet letter, the ducking stool, discipline of authors and books (egad!), and four other horrifying examples of ways in which those who transgressed the laws of Colonial America were made to pay for their sins.

Download or read book Let the Lord Sort Them written by Maurice Chammah and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.

Download or read book Christian Origins of America written by Alice Morse Earle and published by TGS Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Edition, Large Print, 15 point fontIn ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books. An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume. The subject is not a pleasant one, though it often has a humorous element; but a punishment that is obsolete gains an interest and dignity from antiquity and its history becomes endurable because it has a past only and no future. That men were pilloried and women ducked by our law-abiding forbears rouses a thrill of hot indignation which dies down into a dull ember of curiosity when we reflect that they will never be pilloried or ducked again.

Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]sinning colonists, and they were soon in constant use. In the very oldest court records, which are still preserved, of the settlement of Boston—the Bay colony—appear the frequent sentences of offenders to be placed in the bilboes. The earliest entry is in the authorized record of the Court held at Boston on the 7th of August, 1632. It reads thus: “Jams Woodward shall be sett in the bilbowes for being drunk at the Newe-towne.” “Newe-towne” was the old name of Cambridge. Soon another colonist felt the bilboes for “selling peeces and powder and shott to the Indians,” ever a bitterly-abhorred and fiercely-punished crime. And another, the same year, for threatening[...]".

Download or read book Medieval Punishments written by William Andrews and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of the victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was certain to be shockingly injured. She thus suffered for telling her mind to some petty tyrant in office, or speaking plainly to a wrong-doer, or for taking to task a lazy, and perhaps a drunken husband.“ Dive into the macabre history of England and Old Europe in this treasure chest of historical punishments. In the pages of Medieval Punishments are punishments from a less enlightened period, creating a thoroughly researched historical document that sheds light on the evolution of society and how humans have maintained social order and addressed crime. In a town called Newcastle-on-Tyne, a drunkard cloak was a barrel that offenders were made to wear. In Anglo-Saxon times, each town was required to build stocks to hold breakers of the peace. To the Romans, beheading was considered the most honorable of deaths. It’s these details that make Medieval Punishments a compelling read for social historians and important component of human history.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cremation written by Lewis H. Mates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.

Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days Classic Reprint written by Alice Morse Earle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Curious Punishments of Bygone Days Equally with personal libel did all good citizens and all good Christians fiercely resent of word, not only of derision or satire, but even of dispassionate disapproval of either government or church. A tithe of the plain speaking criticism cheerfully endured in poli tics to-day would have provoked a civil war two centuries ago; while freedom of judgment or expression in religious matters was ever sharply silenced and punished in New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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