Old Lamps for New Ones, And Other Sketches And Essays Hitherto Uncollected
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If it be an example to criminals, and to criminals only, why are not the pris- oners in Newgate brought out to see the show before the debtors' door? Why, while they are made parties to the condemned sermon, are they rigidly excluded from the im- proving postscript of the gallows? Because an execution is well known to be an utterly useless, barbarous, and bru- talizing sight, and because the sympathy of all beholders, who have any sympathy at all, is certain to be always with the criminal, and ...never with the law.
I learn from the newspaper accounts of every execution CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. 135 how Mr. So-and-so, and Mr. Somebody else, and Mr. So- forth shook hands with the culprit, but I never find them shaking hands with the hangman. All kinds of attention and consideration are lavished on the one ; but the other is universally avoided, like a pestilence. I want to know why so much sympathy is expended on the man who kills another in the vehemence of his own bad passions, and why the man who kills him in the name of the law is shunned and fled from?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If it be an example to criminals, and to criminals only, why are not the pris- oners in Newgate brought out to see the show before the debtors' door? Why, while they are made parties to the condemned sermon, are they rigidly excluded from the im- proving postscript of the gallows? Because an execution is well known to be an utterly useless, barbarous, and bru- talizing sight, and because the sympathy of all beholders, who have any sympathy at all, is certain to be always with the criminal, and ...never with the law.
I learn from the newspaper accounts of every execution CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. 135 how Mr. So-and-so, and Mr. Somebody else, and Mr. So- forth shook hands with the culprit, but I never find them shaking hands with the hangman. All kinds of attention and consideration are lavished on the one ; but the other is universally avoided, like a pestilence. I want to know why so much sympathy is expended on the man who kills another in the vehemence of his own bad passions, and why the man who kills him in the name of the law is shunned and fled from?
What to read after Old Lamps for New Ones, And Other Sketches And Essays Hitherto Uncollected?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 to read onlineMoreLess
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