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“The Passion to be Reckoned upon is Fear”: Understanding the Social, Cultural and Legal Power of the Criminal Corpse in Mid- Eighteenth Century Scotland.

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1 “The Passion to be Reckoned upon is Fear”: Understanding the Social, Cultural and Legal Power of the Criminal Corpse in Mid- Eighteenth Century Scotland. Rachel Bennett University of Leicester

2 DeterrenceReformRetribution Aims of the Public Execution

3 1752 Murder Act The bodies of executed murderers were to be either sent for dissection or to be hung in chains. (In England and Wales) All persons condemned for murder shall be executed on the day next following sentence (unless that day was a Sunday). “In no case whatsoever the body of any murderer shall be suffered to be buried.” Between sentence and execution the offender is only to be fed upon bread and water and is to be kept apart from other prisoners.

4 Executions in Scotland 1750-1765 No. of Executions Dissected Hung in Chains Other Men 51 6 10 1 Women 15 10 1

5 Dissection as a Punishment - Clydesdale in the Anatomy Theatre. Depicts the dissection of Matthew Clydesdale in Glasgow in November 1818.

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