Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, C. 1915-60
In: Empire's Other Histories Series
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary and List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Capital Punishment and Colonial Rule: Punishment Violence and 'Civilization' in British Africa -- Chapter 1 'The Extreme Penalty of the Law': Law, Courts and Colonial Criminal Justice -- Chapter 2 The Ultimate Deterrent in a Colonial Context? Capital Punishment in Colonial Penal Regimes -- Chapter 3 To Hang or not to Hang? Capital Sentencing, Categories of Colonial Criminality and the Royal Prerogative of Mercy -- Chapter 4 Cultural Defence Narratives, African Voices and the Emotional Landscapes of Colonial Mercy -- Chapter 5 An exceptional penalty for exceptional crimes: Insurgency, colonial violence and the extension of the death penalty -- Chapter 6 Shocking crimes and scandalous punishments: Imperial politics, humanitarian sentiment and the death penalty -- Chapter 7 'In a humane and decorous manner': Rituals of execution from public hangings to death row -- Conclusion: The imperial gallows and colonial rule in British Africa -- Bibliography -- Index.