 | Horace Wyndham - 1927 - 360 Seiten
...old method was the most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, 18 the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?" It was swept away because public opinion demanded that it should be swept away. But the demand was... | |
 | Horace Wyndham - 1927 - 360 Seiten
...old method was the most satisfactory to all parties ; the public was gratified by a procession, 18 the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?" It was swept away because public opinion demanded that it should be swept away. But the demand was... | |
 | 1933 - 540 Seiten
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 | Frederick Emory Haynes - 1930 - 440 Seiten
...alone were left. declared that "executions are intended to draw spectators; if they do not, they do not answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession, the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept... | |
 | Albert Crew - 1933 - 372 Seiten
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 | James Boswell - 1934 - 586 Seiten
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 | Geoffrey Rawson - 1938 - 314 Seiten
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It having been argued that this was an improvement.—" No, Sir," said he, eagerly, " it is not an improvement: they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw... 
