Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Source Publication
Legal History. Volume 10, Numbers 1-2 (2006), p. 35-52.
Keywords
Albion's Fatal Tree; capital punishment; class and criminal law; death penalty; executive clemency; James Muir; Jim Phillips; JM Beattie; pardons
Abstract
A retrospective look at 'Property, Authority, and the Criminal Law' (1975), Douglas Hay's analysis of eighteenth-century English criminal law, by the author, responding to comments by John Beattie, Jim Phillips, and James Muir in a symposium 'thirty years after'. It includes an analysis of recent scholarship on capital punishment and the use of executive pardons in the eighteenth century.
Repository Citation
Hay, Douglas. "Writing About the Death Penalty." Legal History 10.1/2 (2006): 35-52.
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