This humane and kindly
Blue-Law code, of two hundred and forty years ago, stands all by
itself, with ages of bloody law on the further side of it, and a
century and three-quarters of bloody English law on this side of it.
There has never been a time- under the Blue-Laws or any other-
when above fourteen crimes were punishable by death in Connecticut.
But in England, within the memory of men who are still hale in body
and mind, two hundred and twenty-three crimes were punishable by
death!* These facts are worth knowing- and worth thinking about, too.
* See Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull's Blue Laws, True and False, p. 11.
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