The Quarterly Review, Volume 69William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1841 |
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... capital punishment by these Acts had not been visited with it in practice for many years , and there could be no doubt that the dead letter of the law which remained could do nothing but harm . There were some others which had been ...
... capital punishment by these Acts had not been visited with it in practice for many years , and there could be no doubt that the dead letter of the law which remained could do nothing but harm . There were some others which had been ...
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... punishment by death , is in effect its abolition . It is to this question ... capital punishments from the crimes of violence and blood , to which alone ... Punishment by Death . 41.
... punishment by death , is in effect its abolition . It is to this question ... capital punishments from the crimes of violence and blood , to which alone ... Punishment by Death . 41.
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... capital punishment on any such ground , as being not only of evil consequence in its effect upon crime , but as striking at all the public benefits which flow from a reverence on the part of the People for the authority of the State ...
... capital punishment on any such ground , as being not only of evil consequence in its effect upon crime , but as striking at all the public benefits which flow from a reverence on the part of the People for the authority of the State ...
Contents
Collection des Mémoires relatifs à lHistoire de France | 3 |
Objections to and Remarks upon Mr Sergeant Tal | 7 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America Chiapas | 52 |
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