The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 oldal |
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2. oldal
... robbery becomes prevalent and common , to endeavour its suppression by capital denunciations . Thus , one generation of malefactors is commonly cut off , and their successors are frighted into new expedients ; the art of thieving is 2 ...
... robbery becomes prevalent and common , to endeavour its suppression by capital denunciations . Thus , one generation of malefactors is commonly cut off , and their successors are frighted into new expedients ; the art of thieving is 2 ...
3. oldal
... robbery , by inflexible rigour and sanguinary justice . Yet since the right of setting an uncertain and arbitrary value upon life has been disputed , and since experience of past times gives us little reason to hope that any reformation ...
... robbery , by inflexible rigour and sanguinary justice . Yet since the right of setting an uncertain and arbitrary value upon life has been disputed , and since experience of past times gives us little reason to hope that any reformation ...
4. oldal
... robbery with murder , is to reduce murder to robbery ; to confound in com- mon minds the gradations of iniquity , and incite the commis- sion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with ...
... robbery with murder , is to reduce murder to robbery ; to confound in com- mon minds the gradations of iniquity , and incite the commis- sion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with ...
5. oldal
... robbery hastens to riot , and from riot to robbery ; nor when the grave closes upon his companion , has any other care than to find another . The frequency of capital punishments , therefore , rarely hin- ders the commission of a crime ...
... robbery hastens to riot , and from riot to robbery ; nor when the grave closes upon his companion , has any other care than to find another . The frequency of capital punishments , therefore , rarely hin- ders the commission of a crime ...
6. oldal
... robbery . The trial was in York Castle ; the prosecutor was a youth of about 20 years of age , the son of a banker ... robbed in open day - light , on a public road , and of his having lost various memorandums , which a robber would ...
... robbery . The trial was in York Castle ; the prosecutor was a youth of about 20 years of age , the son of a banker ... robbed in open day - light , on a public road , and of his having lost various memorandums , which a robber would ...
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