Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7000 men and women wer... » 

Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. This book explores what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies. «