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<p>Of all these methods the only one <add>that is commonly</add> practised among us<lb/> | |||
in the way of punishment is Hanging. Beheading has been<lb/> | |||
substituted now and then in an indulgence, by the authority<lb/> | |||
of the executive Magistrate <add>Power</add> in the room of a<lb/> | |||
severer punishment. Hanging is also the <del>most</del> ordinary<lb/> | |||
way of inflicting Death in most of the European nations.</p> | |||
<p>This severer punishment is that which is in use for<lb/> | |||
the offence of High Treason. The <del>Judgment</del> <hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> Corporal part of the</note> <add>punishment</add> In High<lb/> | |||
Treason consists of seven different <del>afflictions</del> <add>operations</add> of the afflictive, some of them while living, others after death,<lb/> | |||
kind. 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> <del>Drawing</del> Dragging at a Horse's tail along<lb/> | |||
the streets from the prison to the place of execution. 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi><lb/> | |||
Hanging by the neck yet not so as to <del>strangle</del> put an<lb/> | |||
entire stop to life. 3<hi rend="superscript">rdly</hi> Plucking out and burning of the<lb/> | |||
entrails while the patient is yet alive. 4. Beheading.<lb/> | |||
5. Quartering. 6. <del>Exhibition</del> Exposal of the head and<lb/> | |||
quarters, the place at the discretion of the King. This<lb/> | |||
Judgment is usually changed into <add>simple</add> beheading <del>accord <add>according</add><lb/> | |||
to it</del> in favour of nobility. This <del>the charge</del> Lord<lb/> | |||
<unclear>Coke</unclear> and after him other Lawyers call remitting a<lb/> | |||
part of the punishment. The King they say has<lb/> | |||
power to remit a part of any punishment, but not<lb/> | |||
to change it. But the fact <add>truth</add> is that in effect this<lb/> | |||
is not only remitting <del>a pa</del> but changing. In the ordinary<lb/> | |||
punishment the <del>death a man suffers</del> <add>operation by which the death</add> is produced<lb/> | |||
is either the hanging, or the embowelling:<lb/> | |||
in the extraordinary it is the beheading. In the <del>latter</del> <add>former<lb/> | |||
if</add></p> | |||
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5
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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