Article ID: CBB467297063

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Marland, Hilary
Triggs, Jessica
Weston, Kathryn M.
Black, Lynsey
Boult, Margaret
Hampton, Stephen
Concepts
Prisons
Criminology
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and law
Psychiatry
Prisoners
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
England
Ireland
New South Wales (Australia)
United States
Italy
Bahia (Brazil)
Institutions
HM Pentonville Prison (The Ville)
Collège de France, Paris
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