★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
<!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
<head>Letter 2<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi> or 3</head><lb/>New York; 1802: Eddy,<lb/><note>N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 3<lb/></note><lb/>Page 58. "It is certain also, that under the present system of<lb/><note>XIII Crimes <gap/><lb/>Death</note><lb/>"punishment, a much less number of offenders escape conviction.<lb/>"<hi rend='underline'>Individuals do not</hi>, from a sense of the terrible consequences to the<lb/>"party, <hi rend='underline'>refuse to prosecute</hi>; nor <hi rend='underline'>juries</hi>, from motives of compassion,<lb/><note>Crimes <gap/></note><lb/>"<hi rend='underline'>forbear to convict</hi> the guilty. This is a most salutary consequence<lb/><note>Prosecution ready</note><lb/>"of the amelioration of our general laws —<lb/><lb/><note>N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 1</note> <del><gap/>;</del> <add>Philadelphia</add> 1793: <gap/> p. 92. "Juries are not now unwilling to<lb/>"convict; and pardons are not granted till they [the prisoners]<lb/>"discover some appearances of amendment.<lb/><note>N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 2</note> Philadelphia; 1795. Liancourt, p. 29. "Juries, who naturally feel<lb/>"repugnant to the punishment of death, & incline rather to doubt<lb/>"of, than add strength to the evidence <gap/>, when they find, as is<lb/>"now the case, the punishment proportioned to the crime, and<lb/>"are convinced of the utility of the scheme, will be less averse<lb/>"to investigate & and admit the proofs of guilt. The executive also<lb/>"has no sufficient motive to pardon a convict previous to the<lb/>"execution of his sentence, since at any time he has the power<lb/>"of doing it, after the criminal has demonstrated that he is<lb/>"worthy of the indulgence. <hi rend='underline'>This certainty of punishment has<lb/> | <head>Letter 2<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi> or 3</head><lb/>New York; 1802: Eddy,<lb/><note>N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 3<lb/></note><lb/>Page 58. "It is certain also, that under the present system of<lb/><note>XIII Crimes <gap/><lb/>Death</note><lb/>"punishment, a much less number of offenders escape conviction.<lb/>"<hi rend='underline'>Individuals do not</hi>, from a sense of the terrible consequences to the<lb/>"party, <hi rend='underline'>refuse to prosecute</hi>; nor <hi rend='underline'>juries</hi>, from motives of compassion,<lb/><note>Crimes <gap/></note><lb/>"<hi rend='underline'>forbear to convict</hi> the guilty. This is a most salutary consequence<lb/><note>Prosecution ready</note><lb/>"of the amelioration of our general laws —<lb/><lb/><note>N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 1</note> <del><gap/>;</del> <add>Philadelphia</add> 1793: <gap/> p. 92. "Juries are not now unwilling to<lb/>"convict; and pardons are not granted till they [the prisoners]<lb/>"discover some appearances of amendment.<lb/><note>N<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 2</note> Philadelphia; 1795. Liancourt, p. 29. "Juries, who naturally feel<lb/>"repugnant to the punishment of death, & incline rather to doubt<lb/>"of, than add strength to the evidence <gap/>, when they find, as is<lb/>"now the case, the punishment proportioned to the crime, and<lb/>"are convinced of the utility of the scheme, will be less averse<lb/>"to investigate & and admit the proofs of guilt. The executive also<lb/>"has no sufficient motive to pardon a convict previous to the<lb/>"execution of his sentence, since at any time he has the power<lb/>"of doing it, after the criminal has demonstrated that he is<lb/>"worthy of the indulgence. <hi rend='underline'>This certainty of punishment has<lb/>"already proved a great check upon criminality"></hi> | ||
Letter 2d or 3
New York; 1802: Eddy,
No 3
Page 58. "It is certain also, that under the present system of
XIII Crimes
Death
"punishment, a much less number of offenders escape conviction.
"Individuals do not, from a sense of the terrible consequences to the
"party, refuse to prosecute; nor juries, from motives of compassion,
Crimes
"forbear to convict the guilty. This is a most salutary consequence
Prosecution ready
"of the amelioration of our general laws —
No 1 ; Philadelphia 1793: p. 92. "Juries are not now unwilling to
"convict; and pardons are not granted till they [the prisoners]
"discover some appearances of amendment.
No 2 Philadelphia; 1795. Liancourt, p. 29. "Juries, who naturally feel
"repugnant to the punishment of death, & incline rather to doubt
"of, than add strength to the evidence , when they find, as is
"now the case, the punishment proportioned to the crime, and
"are convinced of the utility of the scheme, will be less averse
"to investigate & and admit the proofs of guilt. The executive also
"has no sufficient motive to pardon a convict previous to the
"execution of his sentence, since at any time he has the power
"of doing it, after the criminal has demonstrated that he is
"worthy of the indulgence. This certainty of punishment has
"already proved a great check upon criminality">
|
Identifier: | JB/116/046/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
not numbered |
|||
|
116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
||
|
046 |
letter 2d or 3 |
||
|
001 |
|||
|
collectanea |
1 |
||
|
recto |
f90 |
||
|
jeremy bentham; john herbert koe |
|||
|
37579 |
|||
