The Science of Government in Connection With American Institutions
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Nor can he be con- victed on his own confession, unless it be made in open court. Confession artfully wrung from him, or false testimony respecting confession, cannot harm him. Thus careful were our fathers in regard to the crim* of treason, being led thereiJnto by the bloody reco; Is on the pages of history. Art. 3, § 3, 2. " The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no at- tainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of ...the person at- tainted." " The punishment of high treason by the common law, as stated by Mr. Justice Blackstone, is as fol- lows : 1. That the offender be drawn to the gallows, and not be carried or walk, though usually (by conni- vance at length ripened into law) a sledge or hurdle is allowed, to preserve the offender from the ex- treme torment of being dragged on the ground or pavement. 2. That he be hanged by the neck and cut down alive. 3. That his entrails be taken out and burned while he is yet alive.
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