1st Edition
Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice “And Must They All Be Hanged?”
By Drew D. Gray
Copyright 2020
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid conviction, and so avoid a sentence of hanging. This approach allows a deep examination of the workings of the justice system using social and... Read more
1. Introduction and Themes
2. "Mercy Without Justice"? Press Criticism of the Pardoning Process in Late Eighteenth-Century London: The Kennedy Case of 1770
3. "There Goes Clarke, That Blood-Selling Rascal": Murder, Revenge and the Crowd in Early 1770s Spitalfields
4. The Royal Duchess and the Apothecary’s Son: Homicide, Communal Prejudice and Pleading for Pardon in Provincial England
5. Sex, Scandal and Strangulation: The Strange Case of Francis Kotzwara and Susannah Hill
6. Conclusions
Biography
Drew D. Gray is the head of Humanities at the University of Northampton.
