Essays on the punishment of death / by Charles Spear.

  • Spear, Charles, 1801-1863.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Essays on the punishment of death / by Charles Spear. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENT S. PART I.—HISTORY AND OBSERVATION. Paga ESSAY I.—Sacredness of Human Life. Suicide—Expediency, 15 ESSAY II.—Revengeful. Story of a horse stealer—Punishment and revenge—Confession of a magistrate—Reformation of a boy guilty of highway robbery —Sympathy for the degraded, 29 ESSAY III.—Scruples of Jurors and Witnesses. Law defeats itself—Facts in England—Lord Brougham's speech —Petitions of jurors and merchants—Testimony of Blackstone —Anecdote of a juryman—Incident of a jury in Plymouth, Mass., ... 36 ESSAY rV.—Effect of Public Executions upon the Prisoner. Executions of Boyington—Robinson—A pirate—Two brothers— Thistlewood—Armstrong—Mary Jones, 42 ESSAY V.—Effect of Public Executions upon the Spectators. Anecdote of a pick-pocket—Testimony of Dr. Dodd—Effect upon a celebrated banker—Description by an English traveller—Tes- timony of a witness—Testimony of a convict—Private execu- tions—Execution of Lechler—Conduct of an executioner, . 52 ESSAY VI.—Effect of Public Executions upon Domestic Life. Provision in Prussia for the children of criminals—Condemned forger and his family—The condemned and his child—Incident at Massachusetts State Prison—Painful fact—Hangman and the judge, 67 ESSAY VII.—Effect of Abolishment. Rome—Russia—Bombay—Belgium—Tuscany—Objection of Chee- ver—Singular confession of Buonaparte, 76