...examples of barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd that the laws, which detest and punish...publicly commit murder themselves ?— What are the natural sentiments of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt...

...examples of barbarity, the more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd, that the laws, which detest and...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ? What arc the true and most useful laws ? Those compacts and conditions which all would propose and observe,...

...barbarity, the more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it net absurd, that the laws, which detest and punish homicide,...of every person concerning the punishment of death f We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner, who...

...There is much of justice in an observation of Beccaria's. " Is it not absurd that the laws which detect and punish homicide should, in order to prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?"* By the procedures of a court, we virtually and perhaps literally expatiate upon the sacredness...

...charged with murder itself. " There is much justice," says Dymond, " in an observation of Beccaria, ' Is it not absurd that the laws which detest and punish...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?' " It would be a waste of time to point out all the absurdities involved in this charge of absurdity...

...charged with murder itself. " There is much justice," says Dymond, " in an observation of Beccaria, ' Is it not absurd that the laws which detest and punish...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?' " It would be a waste of time to point out all the absurdities involved in this charge of absurdity...

...society ;" — shows that " human sacrifices" are an abuse of religion ; — and asks, " is it no_t absurd, that the laws which detest and punish homicide...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves." t Mr. John Calvert, a successful gold-digger from suits. Where river communication is impracticable,...

...examples of barbarity, the more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd, that the laws which detest and punish...should, in order to prevent murder, publicly COMMIT it themselves?" Our argument receives further corroboration from the criminal statistics of those countries...

...examples of barbarity, the = more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd that the laws, which detest and punish...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves?" The reverend Mr. Roberts, of Bristol, England, states that he conversed with one hundred and sixty-seven...

...There is much of justice in an observation of Beccaria's. " Is it not absurd that the laws which detect and punish homicide should, in order to prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?"* By the procedures of a court, we virtually and perhaps literally expatiate upon the sacredness...