The Story of Capital Punishment, from the BBC, in six parts on youtube.  Like Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, it begins in the 18th century, a sort of a height in public punishment as a crime deterrent/solution before the gradual birth of the modern prison system (I’m no expert, it just reminded me of that book for.. obvious reasons?).  I learned the morbid origin of the phrase, ‘pulling my leg.“ Yikes!