To: Cindy
In colonial Jamestown, Virginia, the court considered any violation calling for a jail sentence of one year or more was best handled by hanging — citing that one year or more in jail was inhumane punishiment
To: OldNavyVet
didnt have many repeat offenders either, I suspect :)
Notice the aka? Bet he is a muslim convert in prison
3 posted on
07/13/2010 4:14:13 PM PDT by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: OldNavyVet
In colonial Jamestown, Virginia, the court considered any violation calling for a jail sentence of one year or more was best handled by hanging — citing that one year or more in jail was inhumane punishment I once found a website that held some of the archives of The Old Bailey in London...the UK's most famous criminal court.The two main punishments were "transportation" (meaning being banished to Australia,etc) and hanging...even for crimes that seemed to be relatively minor.
4 posted on
07/13/2010 4:43:07 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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