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Capital Punishment

Of all these methods the only one that is commonly practised among us
in the way of punishment is Hanging. Beheading has been
substituted now and then in an indulgence, by the authority
of the executive Magistrate Power in the room of a
severer punishment. Hanging is also the most ordinary
way of inflicting Death in most of the European nations.

This severer punishment is that which is in use for
the offence of High Treason. The Judgment ⊞ ⊞ Corporal part of the punishment In High
Treason consists of seven different afflictions operations of the afflictive, some of them while living, others after death,
kind. 1st Drawing Dragging at a Horse's tail along
the streets from the prison to the place of execution. 2d
Hanging by the neck yet not so as to strangle put an
entire stop to life. 3rdly Plucking out and burning of the
entrails while the patient is yet alive. 4. Beheading.
5. Quartering. 6. Exhibition Exposal of the head and
quarters, the place at the discretion of the King. This
Judgment is usually changed into simple beheading accord according
to it in favour of nobility. This the charge Lord
Coke and after him other Lawyers call remitting a
part of the punishment. The King they say has
power to remit a part of any punishment, but not
to change it. But the fact truth is that in effect this
is not only remitting a pa but changing. In the ordinary
punishment the death a man suffers operation by which the death is produced
is either the hanging, or the embowelling:
in the extraordinary it is the beheading. In the latter former
if

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	capital punishment
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54049
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