... their legal values from multiple sources: the criminal code, personal experience, religion, and the political culture of autocracy. Intrinsic to the jury is its function as a representative of community interests prepared to defy those of the state when the two come into conflict. Through their verdicts...

... that backed the preservation of public rituals of execution. It includes discussions about the demand for exemplarity and attempts to delegitimize the regime in its attempts to reform the Criminal Code; the plan to restore the use of corporal punishment and the whip as a deterrent to crime; the people's...