A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1816 - Trials |
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... executed in private ; with us always openly and in public , it being necessary to answer the end of Justice , that a public example be made of Offenders in order to deter others from the like crimes ; but where the Trial and Execution ...
... executed in private ; with us always openly and in public , it being necessary to answer the end of Justice , that a public example be made of Offenders in order to deter others from the like crimes ; but where the Trial and Execution ...
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... Execution , ( as must be the case where Death is made the common punishment for ordinary crimes ) the frequency of the example destroys the terror of it , and makes it less dreaded than going to the Galleys or any place of hard labour ...
... Execution , ( as must be the case where Death is made the common punishment for ordinary crimes ) the frequency of the example destroys the terror of it , and makes it less dreaded than going to the Galleys or any place of hard labour ...
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... execution of them . How unreasonable is it that a Criminal sentenced to be whipt should lie at the mercy of a vile executioner , and that it should be left in the power of a common hangman to make that Whipping as severe or as favour ...
... execution of them . How unreasonable is it that a Criminal sentenced to be whipt should lie at the mercy of a vile executioner , and that it should be left in the power of a common hangman to make that Whipping as severe or as favour ...
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... executed or not ; and ( where it could be had ) an Account also is added of his Behaviour and Speech at the place of Execution . ( m ) Annal . lib . 3. § 25 . And whereas in the former Edition some Trials were inserted xl PREFACES TO ...
... executed or not ; and ( where it could be had ) an Account also is added of his Behaviour and Speech at the place of Execution . ( m ) Annal . lib . 3. § 25 . And whereas in the former Edition some Trials were inserted xl PREFACES TO ...
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... Execution should lapse before such execution done , whether a new time may be appointed for the execution , and by whom ? " As the Affair of Mr. Annesley and lord Anglesea made a great noise , some years ago , and occasioned four Trials ...
... Execution should lapse before such execution done , whether a new time may be appointed for the execution , and by whom ? " As the Affair of Mr. Annesley and lord Anglesea made a great noise , some years ago , and occasioned four Trials ...
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