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"Beyond the Law": Politics of Ending Death Penalty for Sodomy Britain

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"Beyond the Law": Politics of Ending Death Penalty for Sodomy Britain
"Beyond the Law": Politics of Ending Death Penalty for Sodomy Britain

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"Beyond the Law": Politics of Ending Death Penalty for Sodomy Britain

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Upchurch recounts the legal and political efforts of reformers like Jeremy Bentham and Lord John Russell—the latter of whom argued that the death penalty for sodomy was “beyond the law and above the law.” He also reveals that a same-sex relationship linked the families of the two men responsible for co-sponsoring the key legislation. By recovering the various ethical, religious, and humanitarian arguments against punishing sodomy, overturns longstanding assumptions of nineteenth-century British history. Upchurch demonstrates that social change came from an amalgam of reformist momentum, family affection, elitist politics, class privilege, enlightenment philosophy, and personal desires.

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