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Rachel Bennett University of Leicester

“The Passion to be Reckoned upon is Fear”: Understanding the Social, Cultural and Legal Power of the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth Century Scotland. . Rachel Bennett University of Leicester . Aims of the Public Execution. 1752 Murder Act.

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Rachel Bennett University of Leicester

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  1. “The Passion to be Reckoned upon is Fear”: Understanding the Social, Cultural and Legal Power of the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth Century Scotland. Rachel Bennett University of Leicester

  2. Aims of the Public Execution

  3. 1752 Murder Act • The bodies of executed murderers were to be either sent for dissection or to be hung in chains. • (In England and Wales) All persons condemned for murder shall be executed on the day next following sentence (unless that day was a Sunday). • “In no case whatsoever the body of any murderer shall be suffered to be buried.” • Between sentence and execution the offender is only to be fed upon bread and water and is to be kept apart from other prisoners.

  4. Executions in Scotland 1750-1765

  5. Dissection as a Punishment - Clydesdale in the Anatomy Theatre. Depicts the dissection of Matthew Clydesdale in Glasgow in November 1818.

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