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Author: Don Cummer Publisher: Scholastic Canada ISBN: 1443139084 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason -- a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?
Author: Don Cummer Publisher: Scholastic Canada ISBN: 1443139084 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason -- a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?
Author: Sarah Tarlow Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319779087 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Author: Don Cummer Publisher: Scholastic Canada ISBN: 1443113824 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
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Friend or villain? Brother or traitor? This compelling story of wartime friendship brings the looming War of 1812 to dramatic life. Jacob is a steadfast Loyalist. Eli is a newcomer to Upper Canada, whose family has just moved from the American South. The two boys become fast friends, but their friendship is tested when Eli's father refuses to pledge allegiance to the Crown. As Loyalists in Upper Canada become more and more suspicious of those with American leanings, the looming war threatens to pull the boys -- and their town -- apart. Peopled with key figures from the War of 1812, such as General Isaac Brock and newspaperman-turned-traitor Joseph Willcocks, Brothers at War portrays the tense era just before the War of 1812, which pitted neighbour against neighbour as Upper Canada prepared to fend off invading American forces.
Author: Charles Duff Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 9780940322677 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 236
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A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.
Author: Petra Schmidt Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004124219 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 224
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This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.
Author: David G. Chardavoyne Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814331330 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
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The first historical study-and a riveting account-of the last execution in Michigan.
Author: V. A. C. Gatrell Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780192853325 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 660
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A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd.
Author: Rhett Rique Publisher: ISBN: 9781530318063 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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Despite the use of Lethal Injection as the means of executing a sentence of death instead of the Gas Chamber or Electric Chair after 1980, the anti-death penalty lobby has not let up pressure to thwart the majority view the death penalty should be retained. Thanks to a de facto boycott of the supply of pharmaceuticals for Lethal Injection, many executions have been delayed for ten years or more.This book analyzes the common law method of execution by hanging, dispels the myths about hanging, assesses its lethality in bio-medical terms, compares hanging to other legal methods of execution, and makes the case for execution by hanging as an alternative or "backup" method of execution. Hanging is not obsolete, not "cruel and unusual," and is an efficient method of execution.There is risk to society in a so-called life sentence, thanks to prison release. According to the published Recidivism Rates by the State of Washington (Sentencing Guidelines Commission 2008) over 50% of convicted murderers will commit new crimes after release. On a national basis, according to the 2005 Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were over 160,000 state prisoners convicted of violent homicides, of whom at least 50% committed new crimes within 5 years after release on parole. (BJS 4/14 Special Report, Table 8.) A life-sentence can be a lifetime of waiting for the penal system to make a mistake and create the chance for taking revenge on the outside.
Author: Cesare Beccaria Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN: 1584776382 Category : Criminal justice, Administration of Languages : en Pages : 274
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Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
Author: Don Cummer
Author: Don Cummer
Author: Sarah Tarlow
Author: Don Cummer
Author: Charles Duff
Author: Petra Schmidt
Author: David G. Chardavoyne
Author: V. A. C. Gatrell
Author: Brian P. Block
Author: Rhett Rique
Author: Cesare Beccaria