A History of Crime in England Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the Progr
A History of Crime in England Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the Progr
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Even a well- established attempt to murder, if unsuccessful, was not usually followed by the extreme penalty, so lenient did the law become in its administration as well as in its ordinances before the year 1861. According to statutes then passed, actual murder is now the only offence (except treason) for which sentence of death may be pronounced.
One of the greatest objections to capital punishments, however, was not only that they were inflicted indis- criminately, but that they were inflicte...d in the its demora- r 1 r • 1 ^ T-1 r ^'^'"S effect presence 01 a crowd 01 signt-seers. 1 he parti- when made a . . Public exhibi- cular form m which they have been known in tion. England — that of hanging — was denounced by the Emperor Constantine, more than fifteen hundred years ago, as too inhuman and too barbarous to be applied even to a slave. Yet, late in the nineteenth century, men and boys, and even women and girls, repaired to the place of execution to take their pleasure in seeing a fellow human being hanged.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Even a well- established attempt to murder, if unsuccessful, was not usually followed by the extreme penalty, so lenient did the law become in its administration as well as in its ordinances before the year 1861. According to statutes then passed, actual murder is now the only offence (except treason) for which sentence of death may be pronounced.
One of the greatest objections to capital punishments, however, was not only that they were inflicted indis- criminately, but that they were inflicte...d in the its demora- r 1 r • 1 ^ T-1 r ^'^'"S effect presence 01 a crowd 01 signt-seers. 1 he parti- when made a . . Public exhibi- cular form m which they have been known in tion. England — that of hanging — was denounced by the Emperor Constantine, more than fifteen hundred years ago, as too inhuman and too barbarous to be applied even to a slave. Yet, late in the nineteenth century, men and boys, and even women and girls, repaired to the place of execution to take their pleasure in seeing a fellow human being hanged.
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