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These offences , moreover , were usually committed in cold blood , whereas murder is in most cases the outcome of sudden passion ... that Capital Punishment is not a complete deterrent in the case of murder , for we still have murders .
These offences , moreover , were usually committed in cold blood , whereas murder is in most cases the outcome of sudden passion ... that Capital Punishment is not a complete deterrent in the case of murder , for we still have murders .
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The difference in the penalty has not in any way militated against a steady decrease in the number of murders . ... It does not appear to have resulted in a greater frequency of murder as compared with those States which have retained ...
The difference in the penalty has not in any way militated against a steady decrease in the number of murders . ... It does not appear to have resulted in a greater frequency of murder as compared with those States which have retained ...
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A trial for murder is always remarkable for the extraordinary public interest which it creates . ... control are enabled to gloat over the details of horrible crimes . imitative faculty is developed and other murders in consequence are ...
A trial for murder is always remarkable for the extraordinary public interest which it creates . ... control are enabled to gloat over the details of horrible crimes . imitative faculty is developed and other murders in consequence are ...
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THE KAISER AFTER TWENTYFIVE YEARS | 1 |
Who was Merlin | 7 |
Macphail | 42 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 253 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1929 |
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