Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals: With an Appendix, Containing the Latest Reports of the State-Prisons Or Penitentiaries of Philadelphia, New-York, and Massachussetts, and Other Documents (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals: With an Appendix, Containing the Latest Reports of the State-Prisons or Penitentiaries of Philadelphia, New-York, and Massachussetts, and Other Documents

The invention of one portion of the community was continually on the stretch to devise modes of torture to keep the other in awe: the punish ment of death was applied almost indiscrimi nate] y, and With every variety of form, to al most every species of crime. Torture, in dif ferent ways, was very generally employed; and when religious zeal began to mingle with secular enmity, the faggot and the flames were introduced to complete the horrors of the sys tem'.

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