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Going to the source[0], there is no reference to the punishment listed. In fact, other punishments listed on the same page seem mundane in comparison, e.g. > .
by ghayes 12y ago
Going to the source[0], there is no reference to the punishment listed. In fact, other punishments listed on the same page seem mundane in comparison, e.g.
> ... the Jury found him Guilty to the Value of 38s.
Is it possible this is just a transcription error?
Edit: maybe not, see [1]
[0] http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=171601130002 http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=171601130002
[1] http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=171601130006 http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=171601130006
- hvm 12y agoAlso, like I said in a previous comment, it's interesting to note the 'interview' given to the condemned: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 I also wonder what's up with those two names in the 'burnt in hand' section that are anonymized (V--- E--- and G--- C---). Public people not wanting others to know about it? Escapees? People with no public records?
- SixSigma 12y agoAccording to my tour of The Galleries of Justice, in Nottingham UK, the cut-off point between transportation and execution was the price of a loaf of bread.
- lordnacho 12y agoAnd yet people still stole stuff. Does that say something about deterrence?
- SixSigma 12y agoIf you're stealing to live, the threat of being executed is just an alternative ending.
- throwaway_xl5 12y agoIn 'The Commonwealth Of Thieves' Tom Keneally notes some people were committing offences with the express intention of being sentenced to transportation to the penal colonies in Australia. Apologies for the secondary source.
- SixSigma 12y agoAs you probably know, some were only transported temporarily and returned to England at the end of their servitude.
- rsynnott 12y agoThere's very little reason to think that the death penalty was ever an effective deterrent.