Punishment by Death: Its Authority and ExpediencyJ. Wiley, 1849 - 332 pages |
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... statistics it is perfectly impregnable , no reply having been able to destroy the authority of the Belgian Minister of Justice in his official report . The statistical argument from the tables in that Report of M. Ernst , has been ...
... statistics it is perfectly impregnable , no reply having been able to destroy the authority of the Belgian Minister of Justice in his official report . The statistical argument from the tables in that Report of M. Ernst , has been ...
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... statistics and calculations of profit and loss on human life , are , as has been admirably said , the arithmetic of Judas Iscariot , the calculations of the price of innocent blood . FALSE SENTENCES CONSIDERED . 283 Now that I have met ...
... statistics and calculations of profit and loss on human life , are , as has been admirably said , the arithmetic of Judas Iscariot , the calculations of the price of innocent blood . FALSE SENTENCES CONSIDERED . 283 Now that I have met ...
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... I would have to swing for it . " I appeal to the good sense and humanity of our audience , is not that a benevolent statute , which STATISTICAL ARGUMENT . 287 extends over that lonely and wretched 286 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT .
... I would have to swing for it . " I appeal to the good sense and humanity of our audience , is not that a benevolent statute , which STATISTICAL ARGUMENT . 287 extends over that lonely and wretched 286 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT .
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... STATISTICAL ARGUMENT - ITS WEAKNESS AND ITS SOPHISTRY We come next to the statistical argument of my oppo- And I have to say at the outset that it is of such a nature that you cannot trust it . The argument from statistics , so far as ...
... STATISTICAL ARGUMENT - ITS WEAKNESS AND ITS SOPHISTRY We come next to the statistical argument of my oppo- And I have to say at the outset that it is of such a nature that you cannot trust it . The argument from statistics , so far as ...
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... statistics . Here is a country , for ex- ample , in which the penal code annexes death to several crimes , but in which , for a number of years , from va- rious causes , crime has diminished ; of course capital punishments have ...
... statistics . Here is a country , for ex- ample , in which the penal code annexes death to several crimes , but in which , for a number of years , from va- rious causes , crime has diminished ; of course capital punishments have ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
abolished abolition abrogation annexed Antediluvian ARGUMENT FROM SCRIPTURE avenging beast benevolence blood be shed brother brother's keeper Cain capital punishment Christian dispensation committed common conscience consentaneousness crime of murder death for murder decalogue declaration deluge divine authority Divine Law Divine Providence dreadful enactment eternity evil execution experience God's gospel Grotius guilty hand hath Hebrews highest human government human mind imprisonment innocent ishment Jehovah Jewish Jewish law justice kill Lamech legislation lence magistracy magistratus mankind ment mercy moral Mosaic murderer by death nature necessity Noah offender ordinance passage passion penal infliction penalty of death person precepts prison promulgated punishment by death put to death race reason reformation regard repentance retribution RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE revenge sanction sentence Septuagint sheddeth man's blood solemn Sophocles soul spirit statistical argument statute sword things thou shalt tion translation truth vengeance whole Whoso sheddeth man's wisdom
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Page 309 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 124 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 125 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 233 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Page 128 - Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Page 122 - Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven : but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 169 - ... slightest circumstance into a blaze of discovery. Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself, or, rather, it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment which it dares not acknowledge to God or man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance,...
Page 129 - Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Page 230 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 136 - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God : the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God : and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.