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tolerable colour of probability, and after all I<lb/> am unable: but as <del>this may not be the case</del><lb/> others may see probability where I can see<lb/> none, it is on that supposition that I proved.<lb/> But the case is <add>The truth is</add> not that the intervention of a<lb/> Jury in <del>b</del> the cases of capital punishment<lb/> as necessary, but that death as a punishment<lb/> is absolutely unfit for use. I have revolved<lb/> over and over again in my mind every sort of<lb/> crime which it is possible for man to commit,<lb/> and I can not find the smallest use for this<lb/> punishment in the instance of any one:<lb/> and if the uses of it were ever so great, the<lb/> circumstance of the <unclear>irreparability</unclear> of its mischief<lb/> in case of an erroneous sentence, and that of<lb/> | tolerable colour of probability, and after all I<lb/> am unable: but as <del>this may not be the case</del><lb/> others may see probability where I can see<lb/> none, it is on that supposition that I proved.<lb/> But the case is <add>The truth is</add> not that the intervention of a<lb/> Jury in <del>b</del> the cases of capital punishment<lb/> as necessary, but that death as a punishment<lb/> is absolutely unfit for use. I have revolved<lb/> over and over again in my mind every sort of<lb/> crime which it is possible for man to commit,<lb/> and I can not find the smallest use for this<lb/> punishment in the instance of any one:<lb/> and if the uses of it were ever so great, the<lb/> circumstance of the <unclear>irreparability</unclear> of its mischief<lb/> in case of an erroneous sentence, and that of<lb/> its destroying a source of evidence and burying<lb/> along with the victim of a <unclear>conspiracy</unclear><lb/> the means of defeating it would be <gap/><lb/> to render it <unclear>ineligible</unclear>. <del>It is</del> In this radical<lb/> error we may see the chief cause of the <sic>inexecution</sic><lb/> of the laws and the <unclear>debility</unclear> with which<lb/> the system of penal justice is struck under the<lb/> | ||
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tolerable colour of probability, and after all I
am unable: but as this may not be the case
others may see probability where I can see
none, it is on that supposition that I proved.
But the case is The truth is not that the intervention of a
Jury in b the cases of capital punishment
as necessary, but that death as a punishment
is absolutely unfit for use. I have revolved
over and over again in my mind every sort of
crime which it is possible for man to commit,
and I can not find the smallest use for this
punishment in the instance of any one:
and if the uses of it were ever so great, the
circumstance of the irreparability of its mischief
in case of an erroneous sentence, and that of
its destroying a source of evidence and burying
along with the victim of a conspiracy
the means of defeating it would be
to render it ineligible. It is In this radical
error we may see the chief cause of the inexecution
of the laws and the debility with which
the system of penal justice is struck under the
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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