Field Punishment Number One Analysis

I choose this article from Spartacus Educational because it best represents the Capital Punishment that was shown in “A Hanging”. The article “Field Punishment Number One” shows us one of the many methods that were used throughout the 1930’s for Capital Punishment. In this article it talks about the Field Punishment Number One which as stated in the article “involves the offender being attached to a fixed object for up to two hours a day and for a period up to three months” (Simkin 6-7). The 1930s is known as one of the worst decades in american history for Capital Punishment which is also known as the “death penalty”. Executions had reached its highest during this era and many were against it but wouldn't speak up just as the Narrator did in a “A Hanging”. In Simkin’s article “Field Punishment Number One” we see two
He explains in his book A Brass Hat in a No Man’s Land(1930) that he felt it was his duty to teach the soldiers the regulations there were and the army act and to teach them that there would be no desertion, cowardliness and no such like offenses. So he believed that the only way to show them that there were serious about this is by doing the Field Punishment or other acts of Capital Punishment. Crozier saw Fear as nothing more than a crime in war. The other point of view we get is from George Coppard. Coppard was completely against Capital and cruel/unusual punishments . George Coppard had a personal experience seeing the Field Punishment happening right in front of his own eyes. He explains the moment using very vivid details, by expressing the situation so vividly and life-like we can see this had a huge impact on him. Coppard says “British Tommy, was undergoing Field Punishment Number One, and this public exposure was part of the punishment”. Coppard not only saw the death and pain that the man went through but he also saw the public exposure as part of