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. The chapters
'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse'
and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in
Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0
license.