The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death |
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... escaped all the temptations to subsequent crimes , and passed their days in reparation and penitence ; and detected they might all have been , had the prosecutors been certain that their lives would have been spared . I believe every ...
... escaped all the temptations to subsequent crimes , and passed their days in reparation and penitence ; and detected they might all have been , had the prosecutors been certain that their lives would have been spared . I believe every ...
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... escape , than cloud their minds with the horrors of his death . All laws against wickedness are ineffectual , unless some will inform , and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property ...
... escape , than cloud their minds with the horrors of his death . All laws against wickedness are ineffectual , unless some will inform , and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property ...
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... escape ; or to cut down a cherry - tree in an orchardt . Were even a committee appointed but once in an hundred years to revise the criminal law , it could not have continued to this hour a felony without benefit of clergy , to be seen ...
... escape ; or to cut down a cherry - tree in an orchardt . Were even a committee appointed but once in an hundred years to revise the criminal law , it could not have continued to this hour a felony without benefit of clergy , to be seen ...
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... escaping , the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multi- tude that suffer ; he boldly engages in some desperate attempt , to relieve his wants or supply his vices ; and , if unexpectedly the hand of justice overtakes him , he ...
... escaping , the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multi- tude that suffer ; he boldly engages in some desperate attempt , to relieve his wants or supply his vices ; and , if unexpectedly the hand of justice overtakes him , he ...
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... escaping ; for it is the nature of mankind to be terrified at the approach of the smallest inevitable evil , whilst hope , the best gift of heaven , hath the power of dispelling the apprehension of a greater ; especially if supported by ...
... escaping ; for it is the nature of mankind to be terrified at the approach of the smallest inevitable evil , whilst hope , the best gift of heaven , hath the power of dispelling the apprehension of a greater ; especially if supported by ...
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