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.

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