...(1765) punishable by death under English law. Commenting on this fact, he said: So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing increases the number of offenders....either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offense; and judges, through compassion, will respite one-half of the convicts, and recommend them...

...felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forebear to prosecute: juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit...

...felonies without benefit of clergy; or in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders....either acquit the guilty, or mitigate the nature of the offense; and judges, through compassion, will respite one-half of the convicts, and recommend them...

...provided lessons in "practical humanity." As a result of statutory severity, the "injured," he said, "through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute;...guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence; and judger, through compassion, will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to royal mercy."...

...cruell manner and carry its avenging Sword without control' 1Lamoine 1992. 293). Blackstone commented, 'juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget...compassion, will respite one half of the convicts' 1Blackstone 1979. 19). He declared the proper principles of law to be 'conformable to the dictates...

...provided lessons in "practical humanity." As a result of statutory severity, the "injured," he said, "through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute;...respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to royal mercy." Southern justice rested on the same principles, and largely for the same reasons: the...

...without the benefit of clergy; or in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured through compassion will oflen forbear to prosecute; juries through compassion will sometimes forgot their oaths, and either...