| 1847 - 616 pages
...taken from hence to the place from whence you came ; that from thence, on Monday next, yon be carried to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck until yon are dead ; and that your body be afterwards delivered to the surgeons to be dissected and anatomized... | |
| James Blomfield Rush - 1849 - 204 pages
...law upon you, which is, that you be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and thence to the place of execution, there to be HANGED BY THE NECK UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD, and that after death your body be buried within the confines of the prison in which you may be confined... | |
| Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 336 pages
...chess with him, was obliged to pronounce sentence of death upon him. This he did in the usual way — " To be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your unhappy soul !" Then removing the terrible black cap from his head, he... | |
| Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1865 - 318 pages
...her murder, it is my duty to seatence you to be taken back to the place whence you came, and thence to the place of execution, there 'to be hanged by the neck till you are dead, dead, dead ; and may the Lord God Almighty have mercy on your immortal soul ! "... | |
| William Knipe - 1867 - 284 pages
...the Court is that you be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence, on Monday next, to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till your body be dead, and that your body be afterwards dissected and anatomized. Prisoner. — Well,... | |
| Waldorf Henry Phillips - 1874 - 198 pages
...answer : "Guilty!" The sentence is being pronounced, but the prisoner only hears the last words : " There to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God, in His infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul ! " < * CHAPTER X. THE BITTERNESS OF THE SOUL. IT is a fine, bright... | |
| Charles Sutton - 1874 - 680 pages
...and that on that day, between the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and two in the afternoon, you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on you." The Clerk of the court, Mr. Yandervoort, then read the death warrant, and delivered... | |
| Virginia - 1885 - 730 pages
...is considered that the said Negro will go from hence to the prison, from whence he eame, from thence to the place of Execution, there to be hanged by the neck 'til he be dead. (Sign'd) GEO. GILPIN. Ordered that the said Negro Bill be executed on Tuesday, the... | |
| William Hector - 1876 - 386 pages
...the bar to the place from " whence you came (the prison), and from thence to be drawn upon " a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck ; " but not till dead, for you are then to be taken down, your heart " to be cut out, and your bowels... | |
| |