JB/087/141/002

Click Here To Edit

11

Indirect

Imagination
Unawfulness of
executions in
England

I will not spend time in saying what every body
who has heard any thing on about the subject is tired
of hearing that our the modes of execution in use in
England are a cont form as perfect a contrast as can be imagined to every thing
that is awful: that a capital execution has no more
solemnity in it than a boxing match and is viewed
with the same eyes: that our pillory is a game of
chance in which the life of the patient is put to
staked upon the caprice of the multitude and the
accidents of the day: that the weight of a whipping
depends upon the impression that has been made upon
the palm of the executioner: [that the burning in the
hand is performed as he and the patient
can agree
, either by a cold iron or by a hot iron
by which nothing suffers but a piece slice of bacon.]
that the burning in the hand is a farce in which the
parts of which are cast in the old Roman stile,
the declaiming part being performed by the criminal,
and the suffering part by a slice of bacon.

Identifier: | JB/087/141/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	141	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27666
Box Contents