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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
the Assembly, who appointed a committee to inquire into the subject. That committee consulted M. Louis, President of the College of Surgeons, who made a report in which he describes, for the first tces. The report was immediately adopted by the Assembly, 20th March, 1792. In his report, M. Louis says that the mode which he proposes is prevalent in England — that the body of the criminal ise semi-circle to be fastened to the solid parts of the scaffold. It is difficult to say whence M. Louis derived the notion that this was the common method of inflicting capital punishment in England;, was not the fact. At the succeeding election he was left out, and although, when the plan of M. Louis was under consideration, the chief law officer, Roederer, wrote him a note requesting him to cane, when it made its first exhibition, was called in the journals of the day the Louison, after M. Louis, who laid no claim to the invention, and who died a month after.--The first victim was one Pell