tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post2644448170022177720..comments2024-03-27T03:22:46.572-07:00Comments on The Cat's Meat Shop: Lights and Shadows of London LifeLee Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-10235034637951916682008-09-06T13:09:00.000-07:002008-09-06T13:09:00.000-07:00Public hangings as a great spectacle seems to have...Public hangings as a great spectacle seems to have ended in the 1830s and 1840s. Perhaps the sentencing reforms of the period which severely reduced the number of hanging offences had something to do with it. In any case public hanging ended in, I think, in 1867 with hardly a protest.History Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05957731800013301004noreply@blogger.com