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Forensics Timeline
Timeline of forensic advancements 1700-1800 Note: Any dates that are "16 Aug" or "17 Aug" are dates with only the year. (This will be the majority) The last handful of points are actually a source listing. -
NEW KNOWLEDGE
Throughout this entire period, Germany and France experienced mass exhumation of corpses in order to study the insects that were in the bodies. The findings would not be published or made overly conclusive until the 1800s. -
Poisonous Dictionary?
Richard Meade wrote a book known as "A Mechanical Account of Poisons" in which he covered numerous poisonous plants and animals. -
Blackened Faces
The Black Act was passed where a poacher's face was blackened and those caught with poaching equipment could recieve a year in prison. -
Guilty Lady
Mary Blandy was found guilty of murdering her father using arsenic and was hanged. -
Punishing Murderers
Anyone found guilty of murder after this date was to be killed through dissection or hung in chains. -
Influential Statements?
The Italian Cesare Beccaria writes an essay on the death penalty that ended up influencing several prominant abolitionists, including Benjamin Rush. -
Snake Venom
Felice Fontana, an Italian chemist and physiologist, was one of the first to study venomous snakes, discovering that viper venom has an effect on blood. -
Arsenic
Karl Wilhelm Scheele discovers arsenious oxide (As2O3) can be changed to arsenious acide (H3AsO3), something that later assists in the detection of arsenic. -
Colonial Death Penalty
The United States use the Death Penalty in all 13 colonies/states -
Solution so fowl
Fowler's Solution, a solution of potassium arsenite, was prescribed as a general tonic. -
Physical Matching
In Britain, John Toms is convicted of murder due to a torn edge of some newspaper in a murder weapon (a pistol) matching a piece in his pocket; this is the first known use of physical matching. -
Constitutional Death Penalty
While writing the Constitution of the United States, the Founding Fathers allow for the death penalty to be decided upon by the states. -
Adipocere
Antoine Francois Fourcroy was examining disinterred bodies from the "Cemetry of Innocent" and described adipocere. He and Michel Augustin Thouret later find thta its chemical structure is similar to that of soap. -
Congressional Death Penalty
The First US Congress establishes the Death Penalty. -
First US Exection
In Massachusetts, Thomas Bird becomes the first person to be executed under the federal death penalty. -
Removing the Death Penalty?
Due to several juries being reluctant to convict someone to death (as stated by Pennsylvania's Attorney General William Bradford anyway), several states adopt laws where the death penalty can only be brought into play on certain cases such as murder. -
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