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Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, 1868–1901 (2020)

Breathnach, Ciara (Author)

Health and History
Volume: 22
Issue: 1
Pages: 104-125

DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0104

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0104

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Criminology Capital punishment Prisons 19th century Ireland Foucault, Michel

Capital punishment was used with caution in post-Famine Ireland, and when it was handed down, it was routinely commuted to penal servitude for life. Drawing primarily on General Prison Board and coronial court records, this article adopts a Foucauldian lens to examine the procedure with respect to executions in a representative sample of agrarian, political, and domestic abuse cases that came before the Home Circuit and Dublin Commission after the Capital Punishment Act 1868. The cases discussed share a threshold of heinousness that not only assured public support of the most extreme punishment, it also justified hanging in a volatile sociopolitical environment.

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