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It is by the destruction of life that this crime is
raised to that degree of atrocity which requires
severe punishment.

A most sensible evident analogy points out
the means of punishment, that is, the
drowning of the Criminal, with such accompanying
circumstances as will add to the terror of the
punishment. In a penal Code which should
not admit the punishment of death – the
offender might be drowned and then restored to life.
This might be made a part of the punishment.

It may be asked, ought Poison to be
employed as a means of punishment for a Poisoner?

In some respects there is no punishment
more suitable. Poisoning is distinguished
from other murders, by the secrecy with which
it may be perpetrated; and the cool determination
which it supposes. Of these two circumstances
the first increases the force of temptation and the evils
of the Crime; the second proves that the Criminal
attentive to his own interest is capable of serious
reflection upon the nature of the punishment.
The idea of perishing by the same kind of death
which he prepares, is the most more frightful for him.
In every step of his preparations his imagination
will represent to him his own lot. In this
point of view the analogy would produce its full
effect.

There are however many difficulties;
Poisons are uncertain in their operation; It would
be necessary therefore to fix a time after which the
punishment should be abridged by strangulation. If

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4 / f5
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	reat 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	felix bodin
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48252
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