 | George Barrell Cheever - Capital punishment - 1842 - 166 pages
...injured party, through compassion, will often forbear prosecution; juries, through compassion, will forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty,...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one half the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. Among so many... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 284 pages
...two hundred See vol. ip 122. of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute ; juries,...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one half the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. Among so many... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 266 pages
...two hundred. See vol. ip 122. of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute ; juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget (heir oaths, and either acquit the guilty, or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 546 pages
...bore a testimony against them which has come in fact to apply to every one, murder not excepted. " Juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one half the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy." Every one knows... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 550 pages
...bore a testimony against them which has come in fact to apply to every one, murder not excepted. " Juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one half the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy." Every one knows... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 548 pages
...bore a testimony against them which has come in fact to apply to every one, murder not excepted. " Juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one half the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy." Every one knows... | |
 | John Rippon (writer on capital punishment.) - 1852 - 232 pages
...would be that some women would be executed." Sir William Blackstone remarks, "The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute ; juries,...mitigate the nature of the offence; and judges, through compassion, will respite one-half the convicts, and recommend them to royal mercy." This testimony... | |
 | William Blackstone, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - Law - 1853 - 392 pages
...all measure, the public will frequently, out of humanity, prefer impunity to it. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute ; juries,...or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and Judges, wherever capital punishments are numerous, which is now, happily, not the case in our own country,... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Capital punishment - 1853 - 102 pages
...thus speaks of the effects of capital punishments on the minds of jurors in his day : 'Juries, from compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion; will respite one-half the convicts, and recommend them to the Royal mercy. Among so many... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 1110 pages
...frequency with which capital punishment was inflicted could not be justified. "The injured through compassion will often forbear to prosecute : juries...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges through compassion will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend Лет to the royal mercy. Among so... | |
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So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute: juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or mitigate the... 
