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Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987
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| #4284175 in Books | 1996-05-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.50 x2.13 x9.50l,3.76 | File type: PDF | 1048 pages||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Well written entertaining history|By Tom Munro|This book is a history of the death penalty in Germany. The book starts by describing an execution in 1616. That execution was the breaking of a man by he wheel. What was involved was the tying of a man to a scaffold and using a large wagon wheel to break all of the bones in the body of the condemned man. The book charts t|||"A monumental study...Strongly recommended for those interested in the history of European jurisprudence and capital punishment."--Choice||"...No country's history on this subject has been explored with the thoroughness that [the author] has lavished
The state has no greater power over its own citizens than that of killing them. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from the seventeenth century to the present.
Richard Evans analyses the system of `traditional' capital punishments set out in German law, and the ritual practices and cultural readings associated with them by the time of the early modern period. He shows how this system was challenged by Enlightenment theories of punis...
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