dc.contributor.author | Hynd, Stacey | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-16T12:35:19Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-20T14:13:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-12-22 | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Capital punishment in British colonial Africa was not just a method of
crime control or individual punishment, but an integral aspect of colonial networks
of power and violence. The treatment of condemned criminals and the rituals of
execution which brought their lives to an end illustrate the tensions within colonialism
surrounding the relationship between these states and their subjects, and
with their metropolitan overlords. The state may have had the legal right to kill its
subjects, but this right and the manner in which it was enacted were contested.
This article explores the interactions between various actors in this penal ‘theatre
of death’, looking at the motivations behind changing uses of the death penalty, the
treatment of the condemned convicts whilst they awaited death, and the performance
of a hanging itself to show how British colonial governments in Africa
attempted to create and manage the deaths of their condemned subjects. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 49 (3), pp. 403–418 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0021853708003988 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3085 | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_GB |
dc.subject | colonial state | en_GB |
dc.subject | death | en_GB |
dc.subject | punishment | en_GB |
dc.subject | violence | en_GB |
dc.title | Killing the condemned: the practice and process of capital punishment in British Africa, 1900–1950s | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2011-05-16T12:35:19Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-20T14:13:06Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0021-8537 | en_GB |
dc.description | Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1469-5138 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of African History | en_GB |