INDEX ABERCROMBIE, Mr. 164, 201. Abolition of punishment of death necessary, 7, 39. For privately Argument of Col. Frankland exposed by Mr. Wilberforce, 284. Acts, involuntary not punishable, 58. Of infants, when not pu- Advantages of discretionary punishments, 227, 315. Of knowing Advocates of mildness mistaken men, 324. Alteration in value of money, a reason for alteration of the law, 318, 309. Alteration in punishment of death, ought not to be any, 7. In America, parochial schools in, 134. Ameliorate criminal law, Mr. Pitt's anxiety to, 151. Amendment of criminal law, 202. Anarchy, times of, may require capital punishments, 13. Antonio tortured, 4. Antoninus, Emperor, would not punish capitally, 105. Ancient institutions, attachment to, 7. Annual executions in Scotland not exceeding six, 125. Anxiety to ameliorate criminal law, Mr. Pitt's, 151. Of prosecutors Approbation of reforming criminal law, Mr. Wilberforce's, 151. Arson punishable by burning, 67. Assassination frequent in Italy from uncertainty of punishment, 178. By frequent pardons, ib. In Tuscany prevented by abo- Attorney-General, 277. Views with jealousy all attempts to alter Athens, laws of, 40. Authors on jurisprudence have declared the English laws sangui- Auckland, Lord, Howard, and Mr. Justice Blackstone, plan of, for Avarice, uncertainty of punishment proceeds from, in those who Average of executions in the reign of Henry VIII. 2000 a year, 285. B. Babina, society in Poland, called the commonwealth of, 112. Bad effects on the populace from frequency of executions in Eng- Battista tortured, 4. Banishment, 95. Its defects as a punishment, 81. A sufficient Beccaria, his opinions, 9, 145, 146, 173. Beheading, 6, 102. Bad mode of execution, 50. First practised Bentham, 51. His penitentiary system, 174. Benevolence, foolish nature of, 65. Beneficial effects of penitentiary houses, 285, 286. Benefit of clergy, 106. Crimes in England capital without, 110. Bill for privately stealing, 145. Sir Samuel Romilly's speech on, Breaking on the wheel, 6, 102. Punishment of, 45. Not used in Brown, his opinions, 118. Burning, punishment of, 44. At Rome for incendiaries, ib. Among the Babylonians and Jews, ib. Burial of executed offenders, 49. Burton, Mr. his approbation of remitting capital punishments, 164. Bunbury, Sir Charles, 165. Burton, Mr. 155. His objections to limited transportation, 164. Burning, improper mode of punishing, 44. A punishment for Burgh, his political disquisitions, 101. His opinions, ib. Boiling to death, a punishment, 44. Boiled to death, prisoner in Smithfield, on an old statute, 109. Boys, many tried for capital offences, 168. Blackstone, Mr. Justice, 147. His sentiments, 161. His opinions, Blackstone, Mr. Justice, Howard, and Lord Auckland, plans of, for Blackstone, Judge, penitentiary houses recommended by, ib. Bligh, his opinion of the efficacy of severity, 5. His review of Mr. Blunderbusses, curious simile commented upon, 284.—And rattles, 282. Blood abhorred by the church, 34. C. Cain not punished with death, 190. Calas, D'Anglade, and Lebrun, observations on the executions of, 238. Capital punishment, right to inflict, 6. Inefficacy of, 13. For mur- Capital, 106. Crimes in England, without benefit of clergy, 110. Capital punishment, 202. Its frequency, ib. Capital, catalogue of crimes punishable in England, 227. Sheep- Capital felony in Ireland to cut down a tree by day or by night, 259. Capital punishment, society formed for doing away, 271. Capital offence, stealing in a dwelling house, no one being therein, Capital, why not all offences made so, if intimidation prevents Cases unmeet for punishment, 51. Of two persons stealing poul- |