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the effect of the poison should be to produce
sleep, the punishment may not be sufficiently
exemplary. If it produce convulsions and
distortions it may prove hateful.
If the poison administered by the
criminal has not proved fatal, he may
be made to take an antidote before the
penal poison has ope produced death. The
Dose and the time may be fixed by the
Judges according to the report of skilful physictans
physicians.
The horror attached to this crime,
would most probably render this punishment
popular. And if there is one country in
which this crime is more common than others
it is there that this punishment which presents possesses
this so striking an analogy with the crime would be most
suitable.
II.
Second Source of Analogy
For a Corporal Injury a Similar Corporal Injury –
"An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth." In crimes producing irreparable bodily
injuries the part of the Body injured may will afford
the characteristic circumstance. The analogy will
consist in inflicting upon making the offender suffer an evil
similar to that which he has perpetrated inflicgtedmaliciously
& wilfully inflicted.
It will however, be necessary to provide
for two cases, – those that in which the offender
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