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‘The threat of capital punishment is often sufficient of a deterrent to persuade even the most hardened evil-doer that he would do well to consider mending his ways, lest the full majesty of the law fall upon him with dreadful power.’

From: ‘Spare the Noose and Other Essays,’ by Trevor St John Newhey

Published by Northern Authors, 1897.

 

‘I know but one truth about the hemp collar. No man I hanged ever came back to harm another soul.’

From: ‘Tom Hoyle—Frontier Hangman,’

Privately printed in New Rochdale, Nova Scotia, 1906.