JB/159/231/001

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Capital Punishment examined.

The Punishment of Death is not in any way convertible to
profit: unless it be It redound, indeed to the profit of those who
stand in succession to the malefactor's property.⊞ ⊞ But this I can not be made to answer any public purpose. It can not be applied as in pecuniary punishment to the purpose of compensation. & If it be not forfeited
taken from them and disposed of in any other
manner, if the their punishment is then complex
one consisting of two ingredients: the capital punishment
inflicted on the proper object the offender delinquent;
and a pecuniary punishment inflicted on an
improper object or objects: the person or persons
who stand next to him in succession.

Frequently this punishment is particularly obviously
ineligible objectionable defective. On the part of the community it To the community it is productive of
produces occasions a certain loss as well in point of wealth
as strength. The mischief which the nation suffers
on this score in the instance of a given person,
is just precisely the same as it suffers by an
act of Homicide any of those acts which the Laws deem criminal.
When a life is gone, whether by the
hands of a murderer or of the Hangman, makes
no difference in the loss.

I say on this score: for on this score, the mischief
even of culpable Homicide is of but trifling.
The mischief occasioned by such a crime
issues, the far greater part of it, from another
source.

Identifier: | JB/159/231/001 "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	231	Info in main headings field	capital punishment examined
Image	001	Titles	convertibility to profit / frugality
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54054
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