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Revenge For The Condemned, Sara Sun Beale, Paul H. Haagen
Revenge For The Condemned, Sara Sun Beale, Paul H. Haagen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
Capital Punishment: Criminal Law And Social Evolution, Michigan Law Review
Capital Punishment: Criminal Law And Social Evolution, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution by Jan Gorecki
For Capital Punishment, Michigan Law Review
For Capital Punishment, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Book Notice about For Capital Punishment by Walter Berns
Mild Punishments, Robert Mcmurdy
Mild Punishments, Robert Mcmurdy
Michigan Law Review
If life, freedom, or hope be taken from man, he is ashes. Therefore we ought not to take away any of them lightly. But some, restraint or punishment is necessary. We often miss our aim, however,'by prescribing punishments that are too severe, whereupon human nature revolts, so that it is "impossible to combine certainty with severity," a lesson we have long since learned from the experience of England.