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Jan<hi rend='superscript'>y</hi> 1809<lb/><head>Peines</head><lb/>"On the other hand" (continues he) "if, to reach these possible<lb/>"cases, the whole class of offences to which they belong Is<lb/>"subjected to pains of death, and no power of remitting this<lb/>"severity remain any where, the execution of the laws will<lb/>"become more sanguinary than the public compassion would<lb/>"<gap/>, or than is necessary to the general sevreity."<lb/><lb/>The case he has all along in view and to which<lb/>for the purpose of justifying it be all along <gap/> his<lb/>argument is the <gap/> which among the highest powers<lb/>he supposes to prevail - viz. for <add>one out of</add> every ten <add>judgments</add> instances<lb/><del>of <gap/></del> sentencing <del>to</del> a man to the punishment of<lb/>death, the law obeyed <add>conformed to</add> <del>to</del> on the part of them who have<lb/>mere obedience to it, disobeyed and dispensed with on<lb/> the other <gap/>. This <add>state of things</add> in his view <add>exhibits</add> is, as he presently<lb/>after declares, the very perfection of good policy: nor will<lb/>he | Jan<hi rend='superscript'>y</hi> 1809<lb/><head>Peines</head><lb/>"On the other hand" (continues he) "if, to reach these possible<lb/>"cases, the whole class of offences to which they belong Is<lb/>"subjected to pains of death, and no power of remitting this<lb/>"severity remain any where, the execution of the laws will<lb/>"become more sanguinary than the public compassion would<lb/>"<gap/>, or than is necessary to the general sevreity."<lb/><lb/>The case he has all along in view and to which<lb/>for the purpose of justifying it be all along <gap/> his<lb/>argument is the <gap/> which among the highest powers<lb/>he supposes to prevail - viz. for <add>one out of</add> every ten <add>judgments</add> instances<lb/><del>of <gap/></del> sentencing <del>to</del> a man to the punishment of<lb/>death, the law obeyed <add>conformed to</add> <del>to</del> on the part of them who have<lb/>mere obedience to it, disobeyed and dispensed with on<lb/> the other <gap/>. This <add>state of things</add> in his view <add>exhibits</add> is, as he presently<lb/>after declares, the very perfection of good policy: nor will<lb/>he <sic>permitt</sic> himself to conceive as possible any other<lb/>course than that of <add>either</add> keeping as fact these emergency laws<lb/>exactly as they stand and giving <gap/><lb/><lb/>A proposition he <gap/> as a <gap/> is — that <gap/>-<lb/><gap/> laws by <add>according</add> which every man who does every thing<lb/>wrong is to be hanged must stand exactly as they are<lb/>at any rate: the <gap/> of them as standing <add>even in the way of</add> is of to <gap/>-<lb/>-<gap/> too painful for his endurance. Proceeding in this<lb/><gap/> he puts his question shall <del><gap/></del> be <gap/><lb/>given to them as at present in <add>no <gap/></add> one time only out of ten,<lb/><note>neither <gap/> <gap/> too many<lb/>as to this <add>single</add> point, laying<lb/><gap/> of the case the means<lb/>whereby the reduction is<lb/>effected, I of course can<lb/>see no reason for <gap/> <gap/> <gap/></note><lb/>as at present or in <add>all <gap/></add> ten out of ten? His answer is — in <add>one</add> <del>out</del><lb/>time only <del>of</del>: and that our time being in my conception of the matter | ||
Jany 1809
Peines
"On the other hand" (continues he) "if, to reach these possible
"cases, the whole class of offences to which they belong Is
"subjected to pains of death, and no power of remitting this
"severity remain any where, the execution of the laws will
"become more sanguinary than the public compassion would
", or than is necessary to the general sevreity."
The case he has all along in view and to which
for the purpose of justifying it be all along his
argument is the which among the highest powers
he supposes to prevail - viz. for one out of every ten judgments instances
of sentencing to a man to the punishment of
death, the law obeyed conformed to to on the part of them who have
mere obedience to it, disobeyed and dispensed with on
the other . This state of things in his view exhibits is, as he presently
after declares, the very perfection of good policy: nor will
he permitt himself to conceive as possible any other
course than that of either keeping as fact these emergency laws
exactly as they stand and giving
A proposition he as a is — that -
laws by according which every man who does every thing
wrong is to be hanged must stand exactly as they are
at any rate: the of them as standing even in the way of is of to -
- too painful for his endurance. Proceeding in this
he puts his question shall be
given to them as at present in no one time only out of ten,
neither too many
as to this single point, laying
of the case the means
whereby the reduction is
effected, I of course can
see no reason for
as at present or in all ten out of ten? His answer is — in one out
time only of: and that our time being in my conception of the matter
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