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The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
nt upon which the people insisted more vehemently than on almost any other, that there should be perfect equality. Dr. Guillotin, impelled no doubt by public opinion, not less than by his own philanthropic zeal, determined to bring this matter before the Assembly on the first convenient opportunity.--One did not immediately occur, however, the populace and the Assembly being taken up, during the first two or three months, with matters of more immediate importance. At last, on the 3d of October, 1789, he brought forward a series of propositions, to the effect that crimes of the same kind shall be punished in the same way — that in all cases of capital punishment the criminal shall be beheaded "by a machine"--that the punishment shall not affect the family of the criminal — that no one shall be allowed to reproach the family or relations of a criminal with his punishment — that the criminal's property shall not be confiscated — and that the bodies shall be delivered to the family, no