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II 619
Afflictive punishments are not to applicable with propriety
all cases, becu since offences to all cases: they cannot be otherwise
than severe, at least in the case of persons
in any degree of above the lowest class of people.
A Any corporal punishment inflicted in public renders
the object of it infamous. If inflicted in private
it would be still infamous and would not be
& would lose its exemplarity.

The most common Whipping, is the most
common afflictive punishment. In the common
Applied in the usual mode this punishment it is in the highest
has the inconvenience of not being equable in degree unequable:
all cases in some cases it will produces only
a very slight degree of pain, in others a very
heavy degree of pain & even death itself. Every thing
depends upon the sort of instrument employed,
of the force with which it is applied, and or the sensitivity
of the individual. The legislator who orders
directs the infliction of this punishment knows
not the consequence of what he does: the Judge
is almost equally ignorant, and in all cases
there will be great irregularity in the execution.
In England, whipping is employed in cases of larcenies
that by a pious perjury, that for having
adjudged under one shilling value. This makes
a harvest for the executioner. If a delinquent
suffers it is because he has bribed neglected to fee the executioner.

Indelible punishments –

Afflictive indelible punishments considered
separately are not susceptible of degrees.
The slightest cannot exist unaccompanied with a
great degree of severity. Some only disfigure the
face as stigmas, others occasion the loss of the use
of a limb; others consist in mutilations, as
the cutting off ye nose, the ears, the feet or the hands.
The mutilations of ye members that serve for
labour should be applied but sparingly to offences
that proceed those sort of offences that are of
frequent recurrence, such as offences occasioned by
want, larceny & smuggling.

Identifier: | JB/047/117/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1803-04-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	117	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	14985
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