Preface
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Thinking About Punishment Over Time
Chapter 2 – Australia’s Hanging Years
Chapter 3 – The Ideal and Reality of Execution Procedure
Chapter 4 – The Criminal at the Gallows
Chapter 5 – The Scaffold Crowd
Chapter 6 – The End of Public Executions
Chapter 7 – Race and the Reprisal of Public Hangings
Chapter 8 – The Push to Abolish Capital Punishment
Chapter 9 – Conclusion: Death of a Spectacle