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tolerable colour of probability, and after all I
am unable: but as this may not be the case
others may see probability where I can see
none, it is on that supposition that I proved.
But the case is The truth is not that the intervention of a
Jury in b the cases of capital punishment
as necessary, but that death as a punishment
is absolutely unfit for use. I have revolved
over and over again in my mind every sort of
crime which it is possible for man to commit,
and I can not find the smallest use for this
punishment in the instance of any one:
and if the uses of it were ever so great, the
circumstance of the irreparability of its mischief
in case of an erroneous sentence, and that of
its destroying a source of evidence and burying
along with the victim of a conspiracy
the means of defeating it would be sufficient
to render it ineligible. It is In this radical
error we may see the chief cause of the inexecution
of the laws and the debility with which
the system of penal justice is struck under the
most arbitrary governments. A thousand doors
are left open for the escape of guilt in at every
step ofin the track of procedure, and when you ask

Identifier: | JB/035/099/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	099	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10692
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