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11

Analogy.

manner.

In this view were a penal Code to be the text of
the law in this behalf in any penal Code, might
be concerned in some such terms as the following.

Whose with a malicious intent shall lay be a means of the mens laying any part of the
country under water, whereby the life of any person
is destroy'd, shall suffer death in manner following thus be put to death, in torture:
He shall be drenched with water till he burst.

The place for describing the particular mode of applying the water, will
be the title Execution, which will compose a branch
of the Sheriff's Law, to this it will be sufficient
under the present title to refer.

The expression malicious intent I am conscious
is not explicit enough of itself. I suppose it a introduce it here
I upon supposition of its being already d expounded
one for all in an introductory part of the Code.

Many I fear will be disposed to censure me
for entertaining a so much as the most distant
thoughts of introducing so horrible a punishment.
By way of apology I shall not go about to
exaggerate by declamation the mischievousness of
the crime, much less what is called the malice of him who should
endeavour to committ it. My constant plea is
not to set passion against passion, but to reduce
both if possible under the Law of reason. I should
not think of proposing such a punishment were
I not satisfied of it's being more than probable that with any tolerable care on
the part of the Government to make it known,
such a punishment would never come to be actually
inflicted.


Identifier: | JB/159/124/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

124

Info in main headings field

analogy

Image

003

Titles

instrument the same - water

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

53947

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