Historical clue formulations

• Contrition — 2026-04-05
• Aching sense of guilt — 2022-09-05
• Sorry state — 2020-08-23
• Parole board consideration — 2015-05-16
• Guilty feeling — 2015-02-09
• "The poison of life," per Brontë's Rochester — 2010-10-28
• Factor in sentencing — 2008-12-04
• "The fatal egg by Pleasure laid": Cowper — 2001-05-29
• Compunction — 2000-12-30
• Moral anguish — 2000-09-20
• Compunction — 1997-12-30
• Sackcloth and ashes — 1997-11-08
• Sentence modifier, at times — 1997-08-30