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Capital Punishment

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the reign of Henry VII, accordmg to FJume, 2,000 crimináis were executed annually; and during the whole period that he swayed the sceptre, 72,000 were put to death; vet Sir Thomas Mooreaverred that property and person were never more insecure. In the reign of Eliznbeth from 300 to 400 persons suffered, every year, by the hand of the public executioner. England, nevertheless, was in a dreadful state of moral disorder. It was a curious, and, in every reBpect, a striking and extraordinary fact, stated by the late excellent Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, in the House of Commoñs, ihat whilst in the reign of the Plantagentes,4 oftences only were made capital - in the times of the Tudors, 27 - and under the sway of the Stuarts, 36 - there were 150 additional offences rendered capital, during the reign of the house of Brunswick ! In the timo of George III alone, more crimes were denounced as capital than in the reigna of the Plantagenet, the Tudors, and the Stewarts combined. We learn throughthe kindness of Mr. Abraham Bogart, Jr., keeper of the female department of the city prison, that between the löth of May and the löth insf., 2,909 females have been imprisoned; 1,010 of whom havo been sent to the penitentiary, 3 to the state prison, and 1,890 temporarily committed as vagrants and drunkards - many of whom were ordered to be imprisoned five dayi for breachesof decorum. - A. Y. Paper. (t7In the Fourth Senatorial District, the Liberty candidatos Erastus Hussey and S. B. Treadwell, received respectivetly 648 and 042 votes. Mr. Coe, the Whig candidfite, lost hia election in consequenco of a mistake in writing the ballots.

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