HIST 398 Lecture 10: HIST 398 MARCH 21 & 23
13 Apr 2016
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Drugged or alcohol to numb themselves before the execution makes the whole process a calculated killing of a defenseless person. Canada"s hangman a job that took a certain amount of expertise. Hanging was cheap and did not require a lot of investment, but hanging is actually difficult. The hangman has to correctly access a variety of factors for it to work: weight, strength and elasticity of rope. Punishment continued after, the rule was body would not be handed over. As the ritual changed, as it went indoors, and press excluded (fed messages), the contradictions in the fault lines emerged with capital punishment. Prerogative powers- executive powers, extraordinary, along side the law. The king/queen is the origin of the law. Royal powers with respect to capital punishment in the criminal code (1892), Death sentences commuted to something else, 40% to. Mercy was always a political issue, but when it was a colony it was political set out differently.
