...law ; but what was the practical working of the principle ? " So dreadful a list," Blackstone adds, " instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders....either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence; and judges, through compassion, will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them...

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...Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases...juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget then: oaths, and either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through...

...Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases...either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one-half of the convicts and recommend them...

...Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases...either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one-half of the convicts and recommend them...

...Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases...offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often fortwar to prosecute ; juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit...