| Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 266 pages
...DEATH. BY CHARLES SPEAR, AUTHOR Or ' TITLES OF JESUS ;' < ESSAYS ON -rtfpRISONMENT TOR DEBT,' ETC. I shall ask for the abolition of the Penalty of Death...infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. The Punishment of Death has always inspired me with feelings of horror since the execrable use made... | |
| Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 268 pages
...OF DEATH. BY CHARLES SPEAR, M AUTHOR op 'TITLES OF JESUS;' 'ESSAYS ON IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT,' ETC. 1 shall ask for the abolition of the Penalty of Death...infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. The Punishment of Death has always inspired me with feelings of horror since the execrable use made... | |
| Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 260 pages
...PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. BY CHARLES SPEAR, AUTHOR OF 'TITLES op IESUS;' 'ESSAYS ON IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT,' ETC. I shall ask for the abolition of the Penalty of Death until I hare the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. The Punishment of Death has always inspired... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 548 pages
...probable, it seems impossible to do less than say with La64 The Punishment of Death. [Jan. fayette, — "I shall ask for the abolition of the penalty of death,...capital punishments were very frequent in England, u the average had for many years been at the rate of one person executed every three years, whose innocence... | |
| Baptists - 1848 - 400 pages
...allude to the numerous instances of error of judgment in inflicting punishments upon the innocent. Said Lafayette, " I shall ask for the abolition of the...infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me," and so say we, as must, we think, all well-wishers to humanity. In one year in France we are told that... | |
| Crime - 1849 - 610 pages
...Bradburn, Rev. Dexter S. King, John Augustus, and Charles Rnnond. On the platform were placed the words of Lafayette: — " I SHALL ASK FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE PENALTY OF DEATH UNTIL [ HAVE THE INFALLIBILITY OF HüMAN JUDGMENT DEMOHSTHATED TO ME." Rev. WH CRANKING. He gave hi? views... | |
| George Washington Quinby - Almshouses - 1856 - 342 pages
...to death as well as the guilty. The great and good Lafayette said, " I shall ask for the abolishment of the Penalty of Death, until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me." And he said this because of the awful scenes he had witnessed in consequence of the execution of the... | |
| Charles Phillips - Capital punishment - 1857 - 136 pages
...exclamation in the French Chamber of Deputies* — " I shall ask for the abolition of the punishment of death, until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. The punishment of death has always inspired me with feelings of horror since the execrable use made... | |
| Law - 1904 - 700 pages
...Contemplating its effects upon the victims of circumstances, the insane, and the innocent, we can but say with Lafayette, "I shall ask for the abolition...infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me." Having dealt with the justice of capital punishment, let us consider in the remainder of this paper... | |
| Capital punishment - 1913 - 278 pages
...a fact gives to the protest of Lafayette: "I shall persist in demanding abolition of the punishment of death, until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me." A few such instances, even, in a century are sufficient to counteract the best effects that could be... | |
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