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Capital Punishment examined

Death will detract subtract more or less from the ballance,
but at any rate there will be a ballance.

Now this is alwaya the caae with a multitude of
malefactors. [Seduced by the charms of indolence,] Rendered averse to labour by natural indolence or disuse, or
hurried away by the tide of some impetuous passion
they do look upon the pleasures to be purchased obtained by
honest industry as not worth living for when
compared but put in competition with the pains: or they look upon
life as not worth having keeping without some pleasure
or pleasures which to persons in their situation
are not attainable but by a crime.

I do not say that this calculation is made with
all the formality with which I have represented it.
I do not say that in summing costing up the sum of pains
on the one side, and pleasures on the other,desi exact
care is always used to take every item into the
account. But however, well or ill, it is made the calculation is made: else the a man could not act as he is supposed to do.

Now then, in all these cases, which unhappily
are but too frequent, it is plain the punishment of
Death can be so as be of no use.

It may be said, no more would any other punishment.
For any other punishment, to answer its
purpose, must have the effect of deterring or otherwise disabling the person
in question from committing the like crimes in future.
If then he is thus deterred or disabled, he is put into an reduced to a situation
in which by the supposition Death was to him an event
desirable

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	capital punishment examined
Image	001	Titles	equability
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8 / f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48308
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