From that time down to the edict of Constantine no Christian could stand before a Roman tribunal plainly avowing his faith in one God and one Christ without incurring the liability of capital punishment.
There was no capital punishment; no hard pressure of the laws; there were excellent hospitals and charitable institutions of all sorts.
It was stated in evidence before the Commission on Capital Punishment in 1864, that Calcraft's method of hanging was very rough, much the same as if he had been hanging a dog.
Punch supported General Eyre throughout, and it may well have been that on the question of capital punishment he was influenced by the principle fas est et ab hoste doceri, even though the opponent was undermining his own position.
We have already noticed the modification, indeed the practical abandonment, of his old hostility to capital punishment.
Capital punishment is abolished except under martial law in time of war (18).
Ever since 1820 Victor Hugo had been deeply moved on the question of capital punishment, and resolved to labour for its abolition.
From his place in the Assembly he spoke strongly in favour of the liberty of the press and of the abolition of capital punishment.
On many subsequent occasions, and notably in connection with Italy and Portugal, Victor Hugo wrote and strove for the abolition of capital punishment.
In the main religious people believe in capital punishment.
He dies, not as a victim, by sacrifice, but as a criminal, by a cruel and degrading form of capital punishment.
Though impalement is a form of capital punishment, probably the girl's blood was expected to fertilise the earth.
In one only is the mode of death a recognised form of capital punishment.
It was only when in company with Mr. Marwood, with whom I became quite friendly, that I ever contemplated the question of capital punishment.
From time to time people raise an outcry against the English mode of putting criminals to death, and there are many Englishmen who have a firm conviction that hanging is the very worst and most unscientific form of capital punishment.
The telegrams of the Government Commissars, Savinkov and Filonenko, and of General Kornilov, who demanded the immediate reintroduction of Capital Punishment, were as a stroke of a whip to the "Revolutionary Conscience.
But the Department of Military Justice, headed by General Anushkin, emphatically declared in favour of complete abolition of Capital Punishment.
Capital Punishment is abolished unconditionally and for ever.
In the first days of the Revolution the Provisional Government abolished Capital Punishment by the Ukase of March 12th.
Capital punishment is still the rule in Austria-Hungary, as the penalty for murder in the first degree.
Capital punishment is inconsistent with the teachings of modern criminology.
Various opinions were passed upon her, and on one occasion a serious misunderstanding with Lord Sidmouth, respecting a case of capital punishment, severely tried her constancy.
Philanthropists of every class were, at the period of Mrs. Fry's career now under review, considering this matter of capital punishment, and taking steps to restrain the infliction of the death penalty.
The Society of Friends had always been opposed to capital punishment.
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