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A Note on John Stuart Mill's Views on Capital Punishment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

George A. Thoma
Affiliation:
Elmhurst College

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References

1 Great Britain, Parliament, Stuart Mill, John's Speech on Capital Punishment against Amendment to Capital Punishment Within Prisons Bill, Parliamentary Debate (Hansard), 3rd Series (1830–1888), pp. 10471055Google Scholar.

2 MacMinn, Ney, Hainds, J.R., McCrimmon, James McNab, Eds., Bibliography of the Published Writings of John Stuart Mill (Evanston, Illinois; Northwestern U. Press, 1945), p. 96Google Scholar.

3 Mill, John Stuart, Autobiograph, New Edition (London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1908), p. 163Google Scholar.

4 Mill, , “Speech on Capital Punishment,” p. 1052Google Scholar.

5 Ibid., p. 1048

6 Ibid., p. 1054.

7 Ibid., p. 1050.

8 Ibid., pp. 1053–54.

9 Mill, John Stuart, “On Punishment,” Monthly Repository, VIII, (10, 1834), pp. 734735Google Scholar; a review of Jevons, Thomas, Remarks on Criminal Law, with a Plan for an Improved System; and Observations on the Prevention of Crime (London: 1834)Google Scholar.