Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Attorney-General Austin” in chapter 10 of Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2:
...g away the gallows is better than to keep it. It is acknowledged that as regards the prevention of crime the gallows is a failure.
You do not prevent crime by hanging the criminal,--it increases.
Attorney-General Austin asked the legislature, in a report made, I think, in 1843, to give up capital punishment, because it did not restrain murder.
Remember, this is Attorney-General Austin,--a man not suspected of any ...
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