LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moral Insanity, James A. Garfield, Criminal Law Of Canada
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3 basic changes in punishment : less violent, less publicly visible, imprisonment more central to criminal justice. Capital punishment was a complex practice, not a simple phenomenon that could be boiled down to a few clear-cut principles. Death penalty tended to change in gradual, limited ways: confederation capital punishment ceases to be performed in public. Scientific ideas that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries did not manage to reshape it to a very great extent. An act respecting procedure in criminal cases, and other matters relating to criminal law (1869) Jail sites as place where offenders be put to death. Morris negotiated several treaties w/ aboriginal groups in 1870s. Comments by morris in parliament on april 28, 1869. He would only ask whether such a scene as that witnessed the other day in charlottetown did not supply evidence of the necessity of adopting another mode of carrying out the last penalty of the law.
