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Getting Away with Murder in Eighteenth Century England. The Surgeon’s Bain and the Power of the Criminal Trial Jury. By Peter King.

  The Murder Act of 1752 could have created a major new supply line for the hard-pressed anatomy teachers of England, Wales and Scotland. By making it compulsory for all fully convicted murderers to be not only executed on the gallows, but also either publically dissected or hung in chains on a gibbet, the Act […]

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