I’m blogging today at Romancing the Past about an issue dear to the politician-hero of Ruined by Rumor, my Monday release: capital punishment during the regency. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, more than 200 different crimes were punishable by death in Great Britain, and many of them were non-violent, even trivial offenses.
And here’s a fun fact: did you know that 177 years after Britain last burned a man at the stake for heresy, it was still burning women? Click here to learn why...
Published on May 19, 2012 05:37