In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.

Until 1897, Minnesota’s governors enjoyed unrestricted power to pardon, or commute the sentence of anyone convicted of a crime in state ... understood in nineteenth-century Minnesota, once ...

The shocking 1924 crime that was among the first to carry the title turned out to be a harbinger of how public mania around criminal cases could influence the legal system, and how psychiatry ...