Word: misericordiam
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...Dublin the Irish Times editorialized: "According to all principles of British law, there can be no doubt of their guilt. The appeal we are making is ad misericordiam. Admittedly we have no case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the Manchester Guardian, recalling the three Irish Republicans hanged in 1867 for killing a Manchester police sergeant, warned: "Nobody looking back on Irish history can fail to see the immense importance that the fate of individuals tried and punished by British authorities has had in Irish history...
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