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…, refers to slaves only as "person [s] held to service or labor"; the new amendment, in direct contrast, directly named the institution by name: "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof The party shall…

…." The 1920s may have begun on a note favoring the consumption of wine, but it also opened on a threat to liberty and capital punishment for political syndicalism. In the spring of 1920, a typesetter and anarchist named Andrea Salsedo was arrested in New York City…

…punishment; Maurice Oakley's has punished and led him into madness. Skaggs gets his sensational story and Hamilton gets out of prison and immediately heads for New York to reunite with his family. Berry Hamilton finds his miserable family…

…capitalized on the demand for luxury goods, and when Chaucer was growing up, London was pretty much run by a merchant oligarchy, which attempted to control both the aristocracy and the lesser artisan classes. This observations and knowledge of literature gained…

…to the minutest detail; dancing, card playing, dicing, and other recreations were forbidden; blasphemy and ribaldry were severely punished. Under this severe regime, nonconformists were persecuted and even put to death. To encourage the reading and understanding…

…the founding of the academies in the mid-18th century, virtually exploded. But the voice of practicality cried out again. A new society, complicated by the latest discoveries in the physical and biological sciences and the rise of industrialism and capitalism…

…, The Month and Catholic Review) Chinese law only punishes infanticide indirectly- that is, the penalties which are applied to it are penalties against the parents who chastise their children or grandchildren so severely as the take away their life…

…Throughout the last thirty years, many of the people of Iraq have been tortured, forced to relocate their families numerous times, arrested and murdered. Those who stood against Saddam Hussein were punished, in most cases by death. All of this happened…

…all Chinese with a nonagricultural occupation as well and failure to pay was a harsh punishment. Tax collectors hunted Chinese down and forced them to pay or else they were tied down, beaten, and the taxes were doubled. What was ironic about the law…

…Capital Punishment, I have never had a patient do what you did to me. Never. And I'm going to make you pay for that mistake, Mr. Beckett. I'm going to make you effing pay.' The doctor walked over to the sink and snatched up a few items. One…