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- catalog abstract ""This is the most comprehensive history of capital punishment in modern England ever written, the first in more than thirty years, and the only one to cover the period 1957-1969. It shows how time and again the Church of England came to the rescue of a punishment that was in danger of being abolished, pushing for a policy which so sanitized the operation of hanging that people lost interest in its abolition. When finally the church withdrew its support, the retentionist cause collapsed." "In the telling of this grim and depressing story, backed by extensive research and based on much unpublished archival material, Harry Potter introduces a whole series of odd, interesting, and macabre characters. There are early evangelical feminists; an eccentric abolitionist millionairess; thrice-hanged Lee; religious hangmen certain of their divine calling; moral crusaders to rival those engaged in the fight against slavery; Lord Haw Haw, Edith Thompson, and Derek Bentley in the condemned cell; bishops who justified hanging on evangelical grounds as providing the perfect terrain for conversions; and literary figures like Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Byron, and Shelley who were both fascinated and repulsed by public hangings."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b5472374.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""This is the most comprehensive history of capital punishment in modern England ever written, the first in more than thirty years, and the only one to cover the period 1957-1969. It shows how time and again the Church of England came to the rescue of a punishment that was in danger of being abolished, pushing for a policy which so sanitized the operation of hanging that people lost interest in its abolition. When finally the church withdrew its support, the retentionist cause collapsed." "In the telling of this grim and depressing story, backed by extensive research and based on much unpublished archival material, Harry Potter introduces a whole series of odd, interesting, and macabre characters. There are early evangelical feminists; an eccentric abolitionist millionairess; thrice-hanged Lee; religious hangmen certain of their divine calling; moral crusaders to rival those engaged in the fight against slavery; Lord Haw Haw, Edith Thompson, and Derek Bentley in the condemned cell; bishops who justified hanging on evangelical grounds as providing the perfect terrain for conversions; and literary figures like Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Byron, and Shelley who were both fascinated and repulsed by public hangings."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "292 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hanging in judgment.".
- catalog identifier "0826406262 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hanging in judgment.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Continuum,".
- catalog relation "Hanging in judgment.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "261.8/3366/0941 20".
- catalog subject "Capital punishment England History.".
- catalog subject "Church and social problems Church of England History.".
- catalog subject "Church of England History.".
- catalog subject "HV8699.G8 P67 1993".
- catalog title "Hanging in judgment : religion and the death penalty in England / Harry Potter.".
- catalog type "text".