• The "Bloody Code" was a series of laws in England, Wales and Ireland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries which mandated the death penalty...
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    principle can be found in the Draconian law of Ancient Greece and the Bloody Code which persisted in Renaissance England, when (at various times) capital...
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    according to law to be punished with death as in England". Known as the "Bloody Code", at its height the criminal law included some 220 crimes punishable...
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    denounced to the local court by their victims. Pursuant to the so-called "Bloody Code", by the 1770s some 222 crimes in Britain carried the death penalty....
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    as was possible. Scholars have pointed out that what was called the "Bloody Code" valued property over human life, however, very few of those prosecuted...
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    1699, the English Parliament passed The Shoplifting Act, part of the Bloody Code that punished petty crimes with death. People convicted of shoplifting...
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    House of Lords rejected it. Though sympathetic to reform of England's Bloody Code, Lord Chief Justice Loughborough saw no need to change the law: "Although...
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    ending the Georgian era. He was succeeded by his niece, Queen Victoria. Bloody Code Early modern Britain Historiography of the British Empire Historiography...
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    related offences Art theft Attention theft Bank robbery Bandwidth theft Bloody Code Brandjacking Carjacking Computer crime Confidence trick Economic Espionage...
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    Magistrates charged Williams with defacing clothing—a crime that in the Bloody Code carried a harsher penalty than assault or attempted murder.[citation...
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    Bloody flag Often called bloody flags or the bloody red (among other names, see § Names), pattern-free red flags were the traditional nautical symbol...
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    the death penalty ballooned under a period of English law known as the Bloody Code. Of those executions, London played host to the vast majority. Hanging...
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    widespread both in Europe and in the United States. Particularly under the Bloody Code, with few sentencing alternatives, imposition of the death penalty for...
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  • guys, dead guys John Silvester, The Age 14 December 2003 Why gangland's bloody code is hard to crack John Silvester, The Age 20 April 2003 Six named in underworld...
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  • Keke NanoCore Twin Moons Revelation Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens Bloody Code Gunslayer Legend Stitch & Ai Soul Land Hua Jianghu Zhi Bu Liang Ren (A...
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  • principle of guilt is an absolute standard from which the 17th century Bloody Code of England emerged, which specified the death penalty even for minor...
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    17th and 18th centuries criminal justice was severe, later termed the Bloody Code. This was due to both the particularly large number of offences which...
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  • earned their perpetrator's automatic death sentences under the so-called "Bloody Code". Judges retained the discretion to ask the accused to read a text other...
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    Silent Night, Bloody Night is a 1972 American slasher film directed by Theodore Gershuny and co-produced by Lloyd Kaufman. The film stars Patrick O'Neal...
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  • of England, the English monarchy and legal system, the Common Law and Bloody Code, with some rare exceptions. One edition contained an introduction suggesting...
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    specifically enumerated petty crimes. Throughout the 1700s, even as England's "Bloody Code" took shape, incarceration at hard labor was held out as an acceptable...
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    poor by doling out punishments that severely outweigh the crimes (“The Bloody Code”). Alice and Mary see a girl hiding in the corner, Kitty MacDougal, an...
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    England were just and merciful, despite becoming later known as the Bloody Code for their severity. He does however accept that "It is a melancholy truth...
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    people for theft, sometimes even in minor cases, under the so-called Bloody Code. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871 and the...
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  • Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Japanese: コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ, Hepburn: Kōdo Giasu: Hangyaku no Rurūshu), often referred to simply as Code Geass, is...
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  • Cargo 200 (Russian: Груз 200, Gruz dvésti) is a military code word used in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states referring to the transportation...
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    Act was entirely repealed by the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1827. Bloody Code The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 &...
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    XD Traditional Billy the Krill 1 4 Uruguay 2017 TNU Toon Boom Harmony Bloody Code 1 26 China 2017–18 iQIYI, Bilibili CGI Boomba & Toomba 1 13 South Korea...
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    The Code of the U.S. Fighting Force is a code of conduct that is an ethics guide and a United States Department of Defense directive consisting of six...
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  • infiltrator crashes the plane in order to recover a new deadly nuclear bomb code named "Bloody Mary". The criminals sell the weapon to Red China. A CIA agent tracks...
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