The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 oldal |
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16. oldal
... guilt . Thus , in France , the punishment of robbery , either with or without murder , is the same § : hence it is , that though perhaps they are therefore subject to fewer robberies , yet they never rob but they also murder . In China ...
... guilt . Thus , in France , the punishment of robbery , either with or without murder , is the same § : hence it is , that though perhaps they are therefore subject to fewer robberies , yet they never rob but they also murder . In China ...
17. oldal
... guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges , through compassion , will respite one half of the convicts , and recom- mend them to the royal mercy . Among so many chances of escaping , the needy and hardened offender ...
... guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges , through compassion , will respite one half of the convicts , and recom- mend them to the royal mercy . Among so many chances of escaping , the needy and hardened offender ...
20. oldal
... guilty only of hav- ing been faithful to their own principles ; who , I say , can , without horror , think of their being torn to pieces with slow and studied barbarity , by men endowed with the same passions and the same feelings ? A ...
... guilty only of hav- ing been faithful to their own principles ; who , I say , can , without horror , think of their being torn to pieces with slow and studied barbarity , by men endowed with the same passions and the same feelings ? A ...
30. oldal
... guilt , which it is often impos- sible to obtain ; nor will they allow that masters of families be obliged to record , and render up a description of the strangers or inmates whom they entertain ; nor that an account be de- -gatur ...
... guilt , which it is often impos- sible to obtain ; nor will they allow that masters of families be obliged to record , and render up a description of the strangers or inmates whom they entertain ; nor that an account be de- -gatur ...
31. oldal
... guilty however they involve the innocent . These expedients , although arbitrary and rigor- ous , are many of them effectual ; and in proportion as they render the commission or concealment of crimes more difficult , they subtract from ...
... guilty however they involve the innocent . These expedients , although arbitrary and rigor- ous , are many of them effectual ; and in proportion as they render the commission or concealment of crimes more difficult , they subtract from ...
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288. oldal - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
17. oldal - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
185. oldal - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
5. oldal - ... therefore, rarely hinders the commission of a crime, but naturally and commonly prevents its detection, and is, if we proceed only upon prudential principles, chiefly for that reason to be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly doomed to the same punishment...
119. oldal - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5. oldal - He who knows not how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, has conversed very little with mankind.
16. oldal - If mathematical calculation could be applied to the obscure and infinite combinations of human actions, there might be a corresponding scale of punishments, descending from the greatest to the least: but it will be sufficient that the wise legislator mark the principal divisions, without disturbing the order, lest to crimes of the first degree be assigned punishments of the last.
2. oldal - The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself: 'Who knows whether this man is not less culpable than me?' On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave let every spectator of the dreadful procession put the same question to his own heart.