The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #142524   Message #3286727
Posted By: Paul Burke
07-Jan-12 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: posh folk shouldn't make the laws.
Subject: RE: BS: posh folk shouldn't make the laws.
Don't exaggerate, Al. In the Regent's time, the death sentence was often passed for minor offences, but almost always remitted. so only a few children got hanged, the majority were transported, normally for 7 or 14 years. So, you see, it was really all right.