A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor.

  • Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841.
Date:
1831
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    7/24 (page 43)
    Ing 1000 dollars; or either:—un- less where any person suffers loss of life, or is injured in body or member, and then it is punished with—deaths In Maine and JNIassachu- SETTS—a secondary punishment ; unless when the crime consists in the burning of a f/we/Z/wg-house in the night time; or being ac- cessary thereto before the fact. stack of corn, grain, pulse, and even of straw, and in all cases is punished with—however different the degrees may be of malignity or mischief. The ^^amended’^ law of Sir Ro- bert Peel makes it equally penal to wilfully burn a heap of straw, and to maliciously reduce a city to ashes. In Delaware, Virginia, Rhode Island—death. In Connecticut—secondary punishment; unless where the burn- ing a building causes loss of life, and then it is punished with—death. In Maryland—deaths or 'penitentiary iox: not less than five, nor more than twenty years, with occa&ion?d solitary confinement. In New Jersey—and solitary \mpn?,ovimcn\. to hard lahor^ not exceeding fifteen years. Second conviction—death. In New Hamtshire—' solitary confinement for six months, and imprisonment to hard labor for life. In Pennsylvania—in the Penitentiary for the first offence, for not less than one, nor more than ten years ; for the se- cond offence, for not more than fifteen years. By the code for Louisiana it is punishable with imprisonment for life—if not a dwelling-house and contain personal property of 100 dollars—imprisonment not less than seven, nor more than four- teen years. If containing less than 100 dollars—not less than five, A.or more than ten years. UNITED STATES. l^utglarp* In Maine and Massachu- setts — a secondary punish^ ment, namely, solitary confinement not exceeding two years, and af- terwards imprisonment at hard labor for life:—unless when the offender \% armed with a danger- ous weapon, and then it is pu- nished with—death. In Rhode Island and Dela- ware—death. In New Jersey—and .solitary imprisonment to hard labor iot a term not exceeding ten years. Second conviction— death. ENGLAND. ISurglarp* The breaking of the dwelling- house by night with a felonious intent. Punishment in all cases —death. By the ancient common law this offence was not punishable with death. It was first made capital by a statute passed in the first year of Edward VI. as to princi- pals. As to abettors and access- aries before the fact, they were exempt from capital punishment^ until the act of the 3 & 4 W. and M. took from them the “ benefit of clergy.” The malignity of this offence is