 You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by your neck until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.  The Examiner - Page 2271825Full view - About this book
 | A. Newton - 1859 - 160 pages
...have to discharge ; and it remains for me only to pass the sentence of the law, which is that you be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence to a place of execution, and that there you be hanged by the neck until you be dead, and that your body... | |
 | Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth - 1860 - 210 pages
...however darkly guilty. The sentence of the court is, that you, Ferdinand Cassinove, be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and be there hanged by the neck until you be dead, and may God in his infinite goodness have mercy on your... | |
 | Charles Elventon Nash - Augusta (Me.) - 1904 - 634 pages
...is, you shall go from hence to the prison from which yon came [at Dresd1n] and from thence bo carried to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! And may God Almighty have mercy on your soul." July 11. Ichabod Plaisted (1763-1836) came... | |
 | Thomas John Chew Williams, Folger McKinsey - Frederick County (Md.) - 1967 - 1870 pages
...shall be commensurate. Your sentence therefore ii that yon be taken to the gaol of Washington County, from whence you came and from thence to the place of execution at such time aa shall be duly appointed, and there be hanged by the neck until you are dead — and... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 494 pages
...from Where he last came and there remain untill Friday the Second day of May next and that he be taken from thence to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck untill dead and that the Sheriff of Knox County See this Sentence put in execution between the Hours... | |
 | James Keith Johnson, Bruce G. Wilson - History - 1989 - 610 pages
...[the law had] required . . . that . . . [those convicted of high treason] should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive... | |
 | John Demos - History - 1991 - 500 pages
...to pronounce will be justified against ye,which is, That you and each of you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, where you and each of you shall be chained to a stake, and burnt to death,- and the lord have mercy... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Philosophy - 1991 - 312 pages
...the opposite scale as heavy a weight as I can, and the sentence of the court upon you is that you be taken to the place from whence you came and from thence to a place of execution, and that there you be hanged by the neck till you are dead. As to you, B, you... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...from the terrifying capital sentence of English-speaking judges: "that you be carried from the jail to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck, until you are DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!" Although here the repeated word becomes a simulacrum of the fate that... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1146 pages
...to pronounce will be justified against ye; which is, That you and each of you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, where you and each of you shall be chained to a stake, and burnt to death; and the lord have mercy... | |
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