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same unfounded and gratuitous assumptions
viz that in a number of cases and
those undefined and undefinable, punishment
of death is necessary to the
public safety, and that the infliction of
it with an unlimited degree of frequency
may be and is perfectly justified by reasons
without number for no one of which
any man can find or need trouble himself
to find words or expressions, - at
least general ones.
"What is worse" (continues he) "it
"would be known before hand that such
"crimes might be committed without
"danger to the offenders life." This worse?
this other mischief worse than any
mentioned before? No: not it indeed; it
is still but the self same supposed mischief
repeated ever again in other words.
Indisputably, if the crimes in question
might be committed without danger to
the offenders life this point of law would
with
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