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  • THE FIRST FORENSIC HANGING
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    THE FIRST FORENSIC HANGING
    SUMMER STREVENS
    ‘For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.’ This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was ‘turned off’ by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about...

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  • BURNED AT THE STAKE
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    BURNED AT THE STAKE
    SUMMER STREVENS
    A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence.   In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely culpability of her lover, and her impressive attempts to defend herself, the ju...

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  • THE YORKSHIRE WITCH
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    THE YORKSHIRE WITCH
    SUMMER STREVENS
    "A fascinating tale of witchcraft and skulduggery in darkest Yorkshire in the early 19th century. . . . An extraordinary story, brilliantly told." — Books Monthly   On the morning of March 20, 1809, the woman who had earned herself the title of "The Yorkshire Witch" was hanged at York's New Drop gallows before an estimated crowd of twenty thousand people—many of them victims of...

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