Dark justice : a history of punishment and torture
Exhaustively researches the history of punishment and torture. Sheds light on a dark and hidden corner of history
History
192 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
9780765199102, 0765199106
35980184
Introduction
Punishment without mercy (Human sacrifice
Tiberius and Caligula
Crucifixion
Persecution of Christian martyrs
No justice for ancient slaves)
Medieval justice (Ordeal by fire or water
Burnt but alive
Mutilation
Torture chambers
Burning
Methods of execution
Pressing cases
Margaret the Martyr
Ivan the Terrible
French blood lust)
Inquisition (The wrath of Rome
The Church takes over the Inquisition
The Inquisitors' work
Knights Templar
Punishment of genius)
Witches (Inquisition to witch hunt
The witch-finder
The hunt
Tears of witches and wolves)
Banishment (A soft option?
Finding the way back
The trip to Botany Bay
Meeting the locals
Keeping law and order
Norfolk Island
Devil's Island
Banished to Siberia)
Prisons (Tower of London
Cell hells of the Middle Ages
The cost of confinement
Dark days of juvenile justice
Punishing the poor
The hulks
Early jails and police
Prison reform
Prison reformers
Alcatraz
Dissident asylums)
Corporal punishment (The pillory and the stocks
Flogging
Army discipline
Navy discipline
The punishment of slaves
The Founding Fathers)
Capital punishment (Rope or axe?
A royal beheading
The wives of Henry VIII
Mary Queen of Scotland
The sword
Early guillotines
Dr. Joseph Guillotin
Vive la Republique!
The Reign of Terror
Sanson and son
The spectacle at the guillotine
The guillotine of Versailles
The Chamber of Horrors
Hanging
The science of hanging
The hangman
Hangman's gallery
The executioner's lot
The condemned
Surviving the noose
Tyburn : London's gallows
Audience participation
The body snatchers
Punishing the dead
Healing touch of the executed
Ruth Ellis
The electric chair
The gas chamber
Death Row
Death-cell lawyer
Execution by firing squad
An eye for an eye?)
Includes index