Post-Execution Punishment: Attitudes, Legislative Initiatives and Policies

by Jordan Jacobs (Editor)

The mutilation of an already dead body as a form of punishment is known as post-execution punishment. The extensive application of the death penalty and post-execution punishments along with the fact that vast numbers of criminals were hanged on the gallows have long been described by historians as a crucial component of social interactions throughout the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This was the pinnacle of a terror-based criminal justice system. After late eighteenth century, the potential of expanding the usage of post-execution punishments and notably public dissection was still being advocated widely. However, in the late eighteenth century, critics of the death penalty have emphasized on the requirement of substituting it with non-capital alternatives such as transportation, solitary confinement, or life imprisonment with hard labor. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide in-depth knowledge about the attitudes, legislative initiatives and policies with respect to post-execution punishment. It will provide comprehensive knowledge to the readers.

212 pages, Hardcover

Published September 26, 2023

About the author

I've loved archaeology (and writing!) for as long as I can remember. My childhood interest in mummies, castles and Indiana Jones led to my participation in my first excavation, at age 13, in California's Sierra Nevada. After completing a high school archaeology program in the American Southwest, I followed my passion to Stanford, Oxford, and Cambridge. Since then, my work for the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History and UNESCO Headquarters in Paris has focused on policy and the protection of archaeological sites in the developing world.

My research and travel opportunities have taken me to more than fifty countries: from Cambodia's ancient palaces, to Tunisia's Roman citadels, to Guatemala's Mayan heartland and the voodoo villages of Benin.

I'm now Head of Cultural Policy at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and live in Northern California with my wife and kids.