 | Pennsylvania - 1831 - 586 pages
...remarkable fact: 'some old offenders have rather chosen to run the risk of 'being hanged in other states, than encounter the certainty of being confined in the penitentiary cells of this.' And after all, perhaps, the certainty of their execution, rather than the severity of laws, strikes... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 322 pages
...three from Philadelphia, reconvicted of larceny, and one from a neighbouring county. As several of them thus discharged were old offenders, there was some...adopted has had a good effect on these ; for it is a tact well known, that many of them were heretofore frequently at the bar of public justice, and had... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 614 pages
...from Philadelphia, reconvicted of larceny, and one from a neighbouring county. As several of them thug discharged were old offenders, there was some reason...punishment of their crimes under the former laws." No. 8. Philadelphia; 1796: Turnbull, p. •!H. - ." Reconvictions are seldom heard of. Of all the convicts... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 616 pages
...honest citizens. But if they have returned to their old courses, they have chosen to run the riil; of being hanged in other states, rather than encounter...punishment of their crimes under the former laws." No. 8. Philadelphia; 1796: Turnbull, p. 48 " Reconvictions are seldom heard of. Of all the convicts... | |
 | Orlando Faulkland Lewis - Prisons - 1922 - 358 pages
...been recommitted. If the discharged prisoners have returned to their old courses, they have chosen the risk of being hanged in other States, rather than encounter the certainty of their being confined in the penitentiary cells of this. ' ' " We come now upon one of the earlier evidences... | |
 | John Lewis Gillin - Crime - 1926 - 896 pages
...been recommitted. If the discharged prisoners have returned to their old courses, they have chosen the risk of being hanged in other States, rather than encounter the certainty of their being confined in the penitentiary cells of this." u In connection with this apparent success... | |
 | 1868 - 1108 pages
...crimes in Pennsylvania, remarked : " Old offenders had rather run the risk of dying in other States than encounter the certainty of being confined in the Penitentiary cells of this." This remark naturally introduces another argument. It is obvious that the efficacy o± punishment in... | |
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As several of them thug discharged were old offenders, there was some reason to fear that they would not long behave as honest citizens. But if they have returned to their old courses, they have chosen to run the risk of being hanged in other states,... 