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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
Crime And The Courts In England 1660-1800, Frank C. Shaw
Crime And The Courts In England 1660-1800, Frank C. Shaw
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 by J.M. Beattie
Conscience And The Law: The English Criminal Jury, Robert C. Palmer
Conscience And The Law: The English Criminal Jury, Robert C. Palmer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Verdict According to Conscience by Thomas Andrew Green
Social Research And The Use Of Medieval Criminal Records, Edward Powell
Social Research And The Use Of Medieval Criminal Records, Edward Powell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England by James Buchanan Given, and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt
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.