The Punishment of Death: A Selection of Articles from the Morning Herald, with Notes, Tom 1Hatchard-Smith, Elder, 1836 First compilation of a series of articles relating to the criminal law. Contains dozens of speeches, petitions and essays on the forgery laws, the penal codes of different nations, the use of interrogations, protests against specific criminal cases, etc. |
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