The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 oldal |
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50. oldal
Basil Montagu. worked upon by rewards as well as by punishments , a hope is held out to the prisoners , that the time of their confine- ment may be shortened by their good behaviour . For the inspectors , if they have reason to believe ...
Basil Montagu. worked upon by rewards as well as by punishments , a hope is held out to the prisoners , that the time of their confine- ment may be shortened by their good behaviour . For the inspectors , if they have reason to believe ...
62. oldal
... hope to escape ; for their habit being in all the parts of it different from what is commonly worn , they cannot fly away , unless they would go naked , and even then their cropped ear would betray them . The only danger to be feared ...
... hope to escape ; for their habit being in all the parts of it different from what is commonly worn , they cannot fly away , unless they would go naked , and even then their cropped ear would betray them . The only danger to be feared ...
77. oldal
... hope , that what he brings under the public eye on this important subject , would be of use in promoting the good of mankind , he should consider his labours as very amply rewarded . -The severity of the criminal laws is not only an ...
... hope , that what he brings under the public eye on this important subject , would be of use in promoting the good of mankind , he should consider his labours as very amply rewarded . -The severity of the criminal laws is not only an ...
85. oldal
... hope of avoiding detection and apprehension ; secondly of escaping conviction , from the means used to vitiate and suborn the evidence ; thirdly , from the mercy of the Jury , in consider- ing the punishment too severe ; and fourthly ...
... hope of avoiding detection and apprehension ; secondly of escaping conviction , from the means used to vitiate and suborn the evidence ; thirdly , from the mercy of the Jury , in consider- ing the punishment too severe ; and fourthly ...
94. oldal
... , as administered in this kingdom ; where so many wretches suffer for crimes , which they have been tempted to com . mit through hope of impunity . ( f ) Page 60 . How shocking is it to consider , that in a 94 THOUGTHS ON.
... , as administered in this kingdom ; where so many wretches suffer for crimes , which they have been tempted to com . mit through hope of impunity . ( f ) Page 60 . How shocking is it to consider , that in a 94 THOUGTHS ON.
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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.