Within this, it seeks to provide a fresh perspective upon key events in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scottish history including Anglo-Scottish relations in the post-Union period, the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the rapid urbanisation, and population growth and density, witnessed in parts of the country, and how these things impacted upon the use of the death sentence. The study is focused upon the whole of Scotland to provide a national history of capital punishment whilst also exploring key regional variations over time. It is shaped by the most thorough gathering and analysis of the Scottish Justiciary Court records to date and draws upon previously untapped resources offering rich qualitative detail related to the country’s capital punishment history.
This study provides the first in-depth investigation into the implementation of the death sentence and the carrying out of capital punishment in Scotland. However, studies of the Scottish experience have remined limited. The history of capital punishment has been the focus of extensive and sustained investigation, with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries offering a particularly pervasive attraction to crime historians of Western Europe.
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