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In all cases ( whatever be the crime ) of capital punishment , it shall be of the same kind — that is , beheading — and it shall be executed by means of a machine [ l'effet d'un simple méchanisme ] . III .
In all cases ( whatever be the crime ) of capital punishment , it shall be of the same kind — that is , beheading — and it shall be executed by means of a machine [ l'effet d'un simple méchanisme ] . III .
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Even in executions of another class [ hanging ] , which do not need anything like the precision that this kind requires , we have seen criminals grow sick at the sight of the execution of their companions - at least they are liable to ...
Even in executions of another class [ hanging ] , which do not need anything like the precision that this kind requires , we have seen criminals grow sick at the sight of the execution of their companions - at least they are liable to ...
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The proofs on which the Tribunal might proceed were to be any kind of evidence , material or moral , that might ' satisfy the jury , whose conscience is to be their only rule , and their only object the triumph of the republic and the ...
The proofs on which the Tribunal might proceed were to be any kind of evidence , material or moral , that might ' satisfy the jury , whose conscience is to be their only rule , and their only object the triumph of the republic and the ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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