Aggravated Assault Quotes
Description of one of his experiences in the Spanish American War.
Several years before the Battle of Bunker Hill, revolutionary activity had already broken out in the American colonies—See {634132} for an example. Parliament passed the Administration of Justice Act of 1774 which gave the British authorities much more “clout” in dealing with the “seditious” American activities. It protected English law enforcement officials from being tried in local Colonial courts for murder or assault or unnecessary force in putting down insurrections in the colonies. Washington and other patriots used this term to describe the Act. Their reason was that under the new law, a British Soldier could kill a colonist and would not be subject to arrest and trial in local colonial courts. So there was no check on the law enforcement authorities use of unnecessary or arbitrary force. English troops could commit murder and never be accountable to the people—hence the name. Ironically, in America today, most of the Federal and state laws on the subject tend to give law enforcement officials the same kind of immunity and impunity which the Founding Fathers found so objectionable. Civilian review boards of police use of force are no allowed in many American communities.
He did not want his executioners to dispatch the victim quickly but make him suffer,
Explanation of the men convicted for conspiracy to murder at the Haymarket Riot of May 3, 1886.
