Contents

1 Introduction: Thinking About Punishment Over Time 1

2 Australia’s Hanging Years 19

3 TheldealandRealityofExecutionProcedure 55

4 The Criminal at the Gallows 85

5 The Scaffold Crowd 107

6 TheEndofPublicExecutions 139

7 Race and the Reprisal of Public Hangings 169

8 ThePushtoAbolishCapitalPunishment 189

9 Conclusion: Death of a Spectacle 221

Bibliography 227

Index 257