Severity of laws, offenders calculate upon escape, 17. -, in England may be safely relaxed, 173. -, ought not to be increased, 208. -, barbarizes public feelings, 18, 33, 42, 137, 197, 227, 291, 251. -, opinion of its efficacy, 3. -, increases crime, 5, 6, 7, 15, 18, 38, 42, 51, 54, 69, 73, 87, 227, 251, 257, 267, 272, 287. -, of punishment, 18. -, consequences of, ibid. Shame, 294. -, destroys the proportion between crime and punishment, 19, 136. -, occasions impunity, 19. -, effects of, 74. -, defeats itself by exciting pity, 4. -, diminishes abhorrence for crime, 33. -, pity for criminal, ibid. -, what proper, 22. -, no excuse for, 139. -, ceases to attend punishment improperly inflicted, 38. -, its effects, ibid. Slavery, 23, 56. Sloth, 224. Solitary confinement, 269, 294. Stealing privately ought not to be punished capitally, 30. Stoics' opinion of the equality of crimes erroneous, 55. Sweden, 252. ----, executions in, 244. D TABLE of prisoners tried in one year, at the Old Bailey, 86. -, of offenders and offences in England, for different periods, 228, 229, ----, in Scotland, 237, 238. -, in Ireland, 239. ---, of punishments in Pennsylvania, 263. Tableau de Paris, extract from, 174. Temporary motives induce persons to enact penalties, 8. not capitally punished by the Mosaic law, 56. how punishable by laws of Plato, 152. in England, 163, 177. --, mode of punishing, 55, 57. --, domestic, ought not to be punished capitally, 178. Thirteen persons executed in England for being in company with gypsies, 203. Torture unknown in England, 9. used in Hanover, 241. first abolished in England, 297. Torments, 20, 182. Transportation, 32, 177, 187, 221. Treason, its enormity, 76. Trials in England all public, 9. Truth and justice, criminal law should be conformable to, 8. ----- will ultimately be prevalent, 27. Tuscany, law of, 252, 282. U Uncertainty of punishment in England, 98, 105, 117, causes of, 104, 225. Utrecht, executions in, 241. VIOLENCE, increase of, notwithstanding severe punishment, 3. Violating the law, 148. Voltaire, his commentary on Beccaria, 176. WHEEL, breaking upon, 37, 175. W Witnesses, their reluctance to enforce severe laws, 155. OPINIONS OF DIFFERENT AUTHORS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH, SELECTED BY BASIL MONTAGU, ESQ. Second Edition. |