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Capital Punishment

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the hanging is performed or in such as it may be in a manner so imperfect as to have
the patient in possession of sense as well as motion,
he may undergo a considerable quantity of pain before
he dies. In the latter unless by an accidental miscarriage
the pain he suffers is next to none.

The reason of this rule is about the not changin a laudable one: the preventing
the executive Magistrate from inflicting a punishment
severer than the Law prescribes. But it
does not come up to the design. For if all were
remitted but the embowelling or the quartering, it is
plain the punishment pain would be much severer greater than
that of that wh of the whole punishment if when regularly
performed executed; if provided the hanging were performed in such so as
manner as to have the effect, it naturally would would
have, i to of destroying sense. And At the same time the design
may be compassed effectually in any another manner.
It is only but referring it to the choice of the patient
whether which of the two punishments he will suffer:
the ordinary one appointed by the Law, or the extraordinary
one substituted by the King. But simplicity
was the aversion of the antient Lawyers. But
the more simple an expedient is the less likely is it
to be thought of, of if by Lawyers, or if thought of
acceptable.

Identifier: | JB/159/226/002 "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	226	Info in main headings field	capital punishment
Image	002	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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