But with the growing public some were still getting injured and laws were starting to be instated to protect the well being on the public during these events. The laws of 1830 and 1840 were quite similar , it stated that "public opinions were calling for hangings to be perform inside the county jails or in the state prisons". ... The public was being brained washed into thinking that a hanging was beneficial to their day to day life or else the wise laws would not have encouraged them people to witness it. ... More and more individuals were considering this form of capital punishment demoraliz...

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Either way in colonial Massachusetts's laws were made and enforced. The crimes and punishments in Colonial Massachusetts not only reflect the societies morality but an embedded commitment to God. ... But, it was more a case of the colony leader's own law rather than God's moral law. ... In Massachusetts the Sabbath laws were enforced frequently. ... Magistrate also created strict laws against Quakers and persecuted them cruelly. ...

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Robertson a young lawyer who knew all about the law, but nothing about justice was a stagehand in the defence. ... Obscenity before the law required much more than something shocking and disgusting it required some seductive invitation to depravity. ... Robertson never at any stage questions the guilt of his clients, what he does questions is the morality and social efficacy of the death penalty. ...

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Violent crime abhors most of us, and outrages our sense of morality. ... (Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sentence of life imprisonment (in some states penal servitude for life', strict security life imprisonment', or for the term of his natural life') has become the most severe sanction authorized by Australian law. ... Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act, 1973.( Australian Institute of Criminology report in crime and criminal justice 1993) Although Australia has abandoned capital punishment...

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