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This book outlines changing ideas of law and punishment, from the ancient Babylonian code of Hammurabi, through Islamic Sharia law to modern notions of rehabilitation and the continued practice of corporal and capital punishment.
Discover strange and terrible methods of punishment, including the pillory; flogging; branding; hanging, drawing, and quartering; the guillotine; the bastinado; death of a thousand cuts; the scavenger's daughter; crucifixion; lethal injection; and the electric chair.
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LEWIS LYONS is a freelance author and journalist based in London, England, who has written on everything from business law to sewage. He was educated at Oxford University and The University of London and started his career working for a London community newspaper. He spent seven years in the United States, for the most part in New York City, where he headed a photo agency, edited a computer magazine,and wrote on technology, music, business, culture, and society.
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