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Corporal Punishment examined.

sure of being happy. But the misfortune of the people in question
is that they can not be happy in that state. It is
[precisely in order to free escape themselves from] by flying from that state, that
they encounter Death.

It is not therefore without reason that M. Beccaria
concludes in favour of Laborious against Death
in the case [in question of criminals of the highest class,] though
whether the [preference is to be vindicate] ground upon
which he rests that preference is of itself sufficient
may not be quite so clear. He supposes that Laborious
Punishment of the Laborious kind moderate
we must suppose in its degree will be make a stronger
impression upon the higher class of criminals than
the most excruciative kind of Death that can be
devised. He supposes a punishment that extends runs out
in duration better calculated from that very circumstance
to make an impression that a punishment
(we will suppose of the same magnitude,) that runs
out into intensity. ⊞ ⊞ That with respect to men or of taken at large I am apt to think⊞ ⊞ Notwithstanding such respectable authority the case is contrary
is the case.
otherwise. My opinion is founded principally on two
observations. 1 In respect to Death in general, the disposition
already noted which men in general are
in to submit to any other suffering whatever in order
to avoid it save themselves. In respect to Death considered as a punishment
appointed by the Laws, the disposition men in
general are in to tax it with severity:⊞ ⊞ and to plead as for a measure of mercy, for the substituting of any other punishment, how severe soever in the room of its Now in respect
to duration the suffering we have seen is next to nothing. It
must

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	233	Info in main headings field	capital punishment examined
Image	003	Titles	exemplarity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
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	54056
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