List Of lllustrations

Illustration 1.1 The execution of John Knatchbull outside

Sydney’s Darlinghurst Gaol on 13 February 1844 (Source ^lWoolloomooloo Gaol, Execution of John Knatchbull', Government Printing Office, Glass Negative 1—21799, held by State Archives and

Records Authority of NSW) 2

Illustration 1.2 The execution of Ned Kelly inside Melbourne

Gaol on 11 November 1880 (Source �Sketch of

Ned Kelly at the Gallows, Melbourne Gaol, 11 November 1888’, copied and digitised from an image appearing in the Australasian Sketcher, 20 November 1880, p.

Illustration 2.1 The Executive Council in Victoria discussing

the case of Frederick Bailey Deeming in 1892

(Source J. Macfarlane, �The Executive Council Considering a Death Sentence, 1892’, print of a wood engraving, Melbourne: David Syme and

Co., held by State Library Victoria) 43 Illustration 3.1 The 1880 Memorandum on Execution Procedure

(cover letter included) sent to the Australian colonies from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London, June 1880 (Source �Memorandum Upon the Execution of Prisoners by Hanging with a Long Drop, June 1880’, Queensland State Archives, Series ID 12690, ItemID 1139511) 58

Illustration 3.2 The drawings sent by the Colonial Office

in England to the Australian colonies in June and December 1880 regarding new execution equipment and the design of the Newgate gallows in London. (Source �Memorandum Upon the Execution of Prisoners by Hanging with a Long Drop, June 1880’, Queensland State Archives, Series ID 12690, Item ID 1139511; �Circular from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with Attached Plan and Section of the Gallows at Newgate Gaol, 28 December 1880’, Queensland StateArchives, Series ID 12690, Item ID 1839168) 59

Illustration 8.1 An 1896 cartoon in Melbourne’s The Free Lance

related to the push to abolish capital punishment in New South Wales (Source The Free Lance, 12 September 1896, p. 9, held by the National Library of Australia) 215