HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bloody Code, Amherstburg
14 Jan 2014
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Roll/function of punishment: functional approaches to punishment, more functional than death penalty (very uncommon now, incapacitation, denunciation, specific deterrence, general deterrence, reformation and rehabilitation. In ontario in 1833, both cases capital punishment replaced with prison term. In 1829, 2 years after england"s bloody code abolished, number of capital crimes drastically reduces: 1900"s treason, murder and rape were only things you could be hung for in canada, public executions always hanging. Jury convicted her but she asked for mercy. Sha-wan-a-kis-kie amherstburg, 1821: member of ottawa nation, he had been a soldier (british side in 1813) during war of 1812. In the fall of 1821, he killed an indian woman on the streets of. Amherstburg: not a lot of details, reference to an atrocious and heinous crime , october 27 jail in windsor, august 1822 trial, proceedings in english, no attempt to translate.
