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Simple Deaths. Simple modes of Punishment.

Now it will be necessarily excruciative or not necessarily
excruciative according to the method method in means by which
it is inflicted: according to the part affected, the nature of the instrument
the according to of the part affected, and in the manner
in which it is applied.

[We set out with saying, that we I should consider
a every mode of punishment as a simple mode, that was effected
by a single act: but a single act single acts if performed
with instruments of a certain kind, and exerted upon
certain parts may produce an evil a punishment (that is) not
simple, but compounded complex: as]

excruciative punishments where it is excruciative or

This being the case it is plain that the excruciation
may be is an effect that admitts of being separated from that of the destruction of life.] [killing] death. Death may be made to take place
without the excruciation, just as the excruciation may without
death. Not indeed in every mode; but a mode
may always be chosen in which they are separable;
which comes to the same thing. On this account
where such a mode is adopted in which they are
inseparable, the punishment may not improperly
be looked upon as complex: it being compounded
of two evils that in their nature are separable, viz
the negative evil of death, and the positive evil
of excruciation. At the same time the act of by which
the


Identifier: | JB/159/227/002
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

227

Info in main headings field

simple deaths

Image

002

Titles

capital / simple deaths

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f41 / f42 / f43 / f44

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

54050

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