One of the key changes to capital punishment in the period I am covering (1750-1880) is the move towards private executions. The Capital Punishment Amendment Act of 1868 dictated that executions may no longer be performed in public and must be enacted within the walls of the prison and the body buried in the grounds of …
Author: paddyxavier
My name is Dr. Patrick Low. I received my PhD in December 2019 for a thesis on capital punishment and post-mortem punishments in the North-East of England between 1752-1878. I am particularly interested in the reporting of executions in the press, postdeath practices on the body of the executed, the execution crowd and burial procedures. I have appeared on a number of episodes of BBC's Murder, Mystery and My Family and am available for other projects relating to my studies. I also created the website www.criminalcorpses.com for a brilliant Leicester University & Wellcome Trust Project. I am not quite as pretentious as my photo suggests. patrickxavierlow@gmail.com