The following is a verbatim quote from a sentence imposed by a federal judge upon a defendant convicted of murder in the Territory of New Mexico in 1881:
"Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in a few weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flee away, the ice will vanish, and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, the annual miracle of the year's awakening will come to pass. But you won't be there.
"The rivulet will run its purling course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the rose. Still, you won't be here to see it.
"From every treetop some wildwoods songster will carol his mating song, butterfies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happily as it pursues its accustomed vocation. The gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses and all nature, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, will be glad. But you won't be here to enjoy it because I command the Sherrif or some other officers of the county to lead you out to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a nodding bough of some sturdy oak, and let you hang until dead.
"And then, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officer or officers retire quickly from your dangling corpse, that the vultures may descend from the heavens and devour your filthy body until nothing shall remain but the bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, copper-colored, blood-thirsty, throat-cutting, chili-eating, sheepherding, murdering son of a bitch."
IANAL, but IMHO, that about says it all.
