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Twenty one lashes on his bare back well laid on!

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1981
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Responsibility
by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1981
Physical Description
2-21 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 85, no. 1
Summary
The writer has studied Lancaster, PA, court records to find the ways in which violators of the law were treated in the 18th century. The article's title comes from the practice in the early 1800's of have convicted persons placed in a pillory on Penn Square and then whipped on the bare back. The article mentions other punishments and some particular individuals sentences.
Subjects
Criminal justice, Administration of - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Criminology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Capital punishment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 85, number 1 (1981), p. 2-21Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.85
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