...proved against him by a chain of clear and incomestible evidence. On being asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he addressed the court in a speech which occupied about twenty minutes in the delivery, in which he took...

...camp, and in the ensuing August Major Sirr arrested him. His dying speech, upon being asked what had he to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, is altogether unequalled for eloquence and intensity in the annals of Irish forensic oratory. We defy...

...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. " Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will! I was held a slave for the best...

...public virtue. After the usual formalities, he was called upon to answer, " whether he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him." The judges, without r^oubt, supposed that he would probably make a solemn appeal, and pro» test, with...

...power of eloquence, as I then thought, a portion of Robert Emmett's reply to the question, "What he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ?" It was a favorite theme for our weekly declamations, and its author was to us a sort of demi-god....

...the hat, the evidence of the hatter, and his absence from his situation. Upon being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he most solemnly protested his innocence, declaring that he was not the man who committed the deed. Sentence...

...returned to his seat. The clerk of indictments then demanded of the prisoner whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. There was an agitation in the court at the question, followed by a dead silence, as if it was expected...

...witnesses in his defence ; but upon being asked by the judge, in the usual form, " if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ?" he made in substance the following extraordinary speech : — " My lord, it is evident all I could say...

...of twenty minutes, found a verdict of Guilty. When asked, in the usual form, whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, the prisoner, who appeared thunderstruck at the verdict, but speedily recovered his self-possession,...

...cannot plead otherwise." His lordship having then asked him in the usual form whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him (to which the prisoner made no reply), passed sentence in very feeling terms, and the prisoner was...