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<add>of administering capital punishment,</add> the happy impossibility of making a wrong <add>a censurable</add> use of it, receives<lb/> | <add>of administering capital punishment,</add> the happy impossibility of making a wrong <add>a censurable</add> use of it, receives<lb/> | ||
from the reverend Doctor further and further <gap/><lb/> | from the reverend Doctor further and further <gap/><lb/> | ||
as <add>at every stage</add> <unclear>less arduous</unclear></p> | as <add>at every <unclear>stage</unclear></add> <unclear>less arduous</unclear></p> | ||
<p>"<unclear>However</unclear>" (continues he); "although it be necessary to<lb/> | |||
"fix by precise rules of law, the boundary on one side <add>is</add><lb/> | |||
(though without the possibility of ascertaining beforehand<lb/> | |||
the propriety or impropriety of the <unclear>spot</unclear> <add>point</add> at which it is fixed)<lb/> | |||
the boundary on one side <del>(continues he)</del> that is (continues<lb/> | |||
he) "the limit to which the punishment may be extended,<lb/> | |||
"and also that nothing less than the authority of the<lb/> | |||
"whole legislature be suffered to determine <hi rend='underline'>that</hi> boundary<lb/> | |||
and assign <unclear>those</unclear> rules; (an admission <add>Note</add><!-- addition in pencil --> <del>he would have known</del> <add>that might not</add><lb/> | |||
<del>better things than to <unclear>turn</unclear></del> <add>have been quite rso readily</add> made had it occurred to <del>him</del> <add>the Reverend Doctor</add><lb/> | |||
how vast an extent the punishment of death has been<lb/> | |||
carried by what is called <hi rend='underline'>common Law</hi> - i.e by Judges<lb/> | |||
without the intervention of the <add><unclear>every</unclear></add> legislature) "yet the instigation<lb/> | |||
of punishment," <add>(continues he)</add> the exercise of <gap/>, may <hi rend='underline'>without</hi><lb/> | |||
"<hi rend='underline'>danger</hi> be entrusted to the <unclear>executive</unclear> magistrate, whose<lb/> | |||
"<hi rend='underline'>mutable</hi> and <hi rend='underline'>indefinite</hi> circumstances, both of the<lb/> | |||
"crime and the criminal, which constitute or qualify<lb/> | |||
"the <hi rend='underline'>malignity</hi> of the offence."</p> | |||
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27 Jun 1809
Paley 67 Per Paley proper that (not attending to the common law cases of punishment of death) for legislature to fix upon cases meet for punishment for to the Judge it may without danger be left to apply, or, in the exercise of his levity not to apply the punishment to the offence
But the impossibility of distinguishing whi right from
wrong, and thence on the first of the possession of the powers
of administering capital punishment, the happy impossibility of making a wrong a censurable use of it, receives
from the reverend Doctor further and further
as at every stage less arduous
"However" (continues he); "although it be necessary to
"fix by precise rules of law, the boundary on one side is
(though without the possibility of ascertaining beforehand
the propriety or impropriety of the spot point at which it is fixed)
the boundary on one side (continues he) that is (continues
he) "the limit to which the punishment may be extended,
"and also that nothing less than the authority of the
"whole legislature be suffered to determine that boundary
and assign those rules; (an admission Note he would have known that might not
better things than to turn have been quite rso readily made had it occurred to him the Reverend Doctor
how vast an extent the punishment of death has been
carried by what is called common Law - i.e by Judges
without the intervention of the every legislature) "yet the instigation
of punishment," (continues he) the exercise of , may without
"danger be entrusted to the executive magistrate, whose
"mutable and indefinite circumstances, both of the
"crime and the criminal, which constitute or qualify
"the malignity of the offence."
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