The English criminal code, later known as the “Bloody Code,” was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes – many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph – were punishable by death.
-Susanne Alleyn
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