Scenes from a silent world, or, Prisons and their inmates
By: by Francis Scougal
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 54378-54381; Making of modern law
Publisher: W. Blackwood and Sons
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Prisons; Crime; Criminals; Capital punishment
Other titles: Prisons and their inmantes; Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Notes: "These papers originally appeared in 'Blackwood's magazine', and are now reprinted with an introduction, large additions, and a new chapter upon capital punishment"--Note, p. [v].

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A strange life and death; title: The end of a bitter experience; title: The acquittal of a murderer; title: The desire of death; title: A dream crime; title: The death penalty.