- Hardcover: 306 pages
- Publisher: SCM Press (1 April 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0334025338
- ISBN-13: 978-0334025337
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 86,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This fine book does what the blurb says, it recounts the history of the death penalty in England from the eigteenth century until abolition. It is more than a history, it is an argument: the death penalty was both justified by biblical and religous sanction, and its technique was sanitised largely by the established church, thus ensuring its long survival. Potter has done his research well, with fascinating resumes of the various arguments propounded by divines, philosophers, pamphleteers and politicians over the years, and invaluable first hand accounts derived from prison records, personal memoirs, diaries and interviews with those who latterly took part. It is very readable, even gripping, and is written with verve and even humour, a passionate style that not not detract from it but its underlying and very serious theme. The heroes of this volume, the leaven in the dough, as in so many movements for human betterment, are the Quakers.
Samuel Romilly
Samuel Romilly
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