 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1767 - 218 pages
...obedience. CHAP. XL VI. Of Pardon*. As punimments become more mild, clemency end pardon are lefs neceflary. Happy the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous! Clemency, which hag often been deemed a fufficient fubftitute for every other virtue in fovere igns, mould be excluded... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1775 - 288 pages
...XLVI. Of Pardons. A /S punifhments become more mild, jj~\_ clemency and pardon are lefs neceffary. Happy the nation in which they will be considered...dangerous! Clemency, which "has often been deemed a fufficient fubftitutefbr every other virtue in fovereighs, flioiild "be excluded in a perfeci legiflatidn,... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Civil rights - 1853 - 576 pages
...of mankind, has the following remarkable passage:6 — " As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in...criminal cases regular and expeditious. This truth may seem cruel to those who live in countries where, from the absurdity of the laws and the severity... | |
 | History, Modern - 1853 - 612 pages
...1716. f Demosthenes against Timocrates. ±De Legibus, DC g Cicero in Verrem, 7. j Des Loia pennies. necessary. Happy the nation in which they will be...criminal cases regular and expeditious. This truth may seem cruel to those who live in countries where, from the absurdity of the laws and the severity... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1859 - 644 pages
...benefactors of mankind, has the following remarkable passage : 3 " As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in...and the proceedings in criminal cases regular and expeditions. This truth may seem cruel to those who live in countries where, from the absurdity of... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1859 - 644 pages
...remarkable passage : 3 "As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardou are less necessary. IIappy the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous...proceedings in criminal cases regular and expeditious. This trnth may seem cruel to those who live in countries where, from the absurdity of the laws and the severity... | |
 | Prison Association of New York - Prisons - 1850 - 604 pages
...remarkable passage^ : " As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are lesa necessary. Happj the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous!...perfect legislation where punishments are mild, and the proceed ings in criminal cases regular and expeditious. This truth may seem cruel to those who live... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1868 - 1132 pages
...of expression that I could not pretend to imitate : — " As punishment becomes more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in which they will bo considered as dangerous. Clemency, which has often been deemed a sufficient substitute for every... | |
 | 1871 - 606 pages
...his celebrated essay on crimes and punishments, says : " As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous ! " But the milder laws of modern times, and the wide latitude accorded to judicial discretion, have... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1871 - 1090 pages
...in his celebrated essay on crimes and punishments, says: " As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous ! " But the milder laws of modern times, and the wide latitude accorded to judicial discretion, have... | |
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As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous ! Clemency, which has often been deemed a sufficient substitute for every other virtue in sovereigns, should be excluded... 
