INDEX.
909
Severity of lawS;
offenders calculate upon escape, 17.
in England may be Mifely relaxed, 173.
oudit not to be increased, 208.
barbarizes public feelings, 18, S5, 42, 1S7, 197, 227, 291, 251.
opinion of its efficacy, 3*
increases crime, 5, 6, 7, 15, 18, 38, 42, 51, 54, 69, 73, 87,
88, 106, 136, 148, 149, 170, 179, 180, 200, 204, 225^
227, 251, 257, 267, 272, 287. of punishment, 18. consequences of, ibid. destroys the proportion between crime and ponishment^
19, 136. occasions impunity, 19. effects of, 74.
defeats itself by excitios pity, 4. diminishes abhorrence for crime, 33. pity for criminal, ibid, what proper, 22. no excuse for, 139.
Shame, 294*
y 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.
Superiority, love of, causeofpunishnient of death, ibid»
Sweden, 252. '
, executions in, 244.
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Tablv of prisoners tried in one year, at the Old Bailey, 86.
, of offenders and offences in Enghmd, for different periods, 228, 229,
230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 239. ^ 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.
Theft ought not to be punished capitally, 55.
not capitally punished by the Mosaic law, 56.
how punishable by laws of Plato, 152.
in England, 163, 177.
— — , mode of punbhing, 55, 57.
, domestic, ought not to be punished capitally, 178.
Hiirteen persons executed in Enghmd for being in company with gypsies, 203. Times, past experience of, shews the inefficacy of capital punishment, 3. 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 m England all public, 9.
Truth and justice, criminal law should be conformable to, 8. '— — will ultimately be prevalent, 27,
