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<del>Thus for our man the Reverend Doctor.</del><lb/> | <del>Thus for our man the Reverend Doctor.</del><lb/> | ||
<del>Allmack</del> he depends<lb/> | <del>Allmack</del> he depends<lb/> | ||
"The propriety of <del>a</del> <hi rend='superscript'>inflicting</hi> mode of punishment | "The propriety of <del>a</del> <hi rend='superscript'>inflicting</hi> mode of punishment depending depends principally | ||
to upon circumstances which it is impossible to | |||
"enumerate or define beforehand! or at any at that rate to ascertain | |||
"with that exactness which is requisite in legal descriptions! | |||
This is as much as to say that it is impossible for the business | |||
of punishment to be carried | |||
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"The latter of which two methods (continues the Reverend
Doctor) "has been long adopted in this country, where, of those
"who receive sentence of death scarcely one in ten is executed
Thus in this practice Such is the germ of the practice:
and worse, under the notice of an indication of an
by which the conduct of the authors creators and preservers of this state of
things may have been determined, comes a justification of
it
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"And the preference of this to the former method (as if there
"were no other) seems to be founded on the consideration, that
"the selection of proper Subjects for capital punishment principally
"depends upon circumstances, about, however easy to perceive
"in each particular case after the crime is committed, it
"is impossible to enumerate or define beforehand; in to
"ascertain however with that exactness which is requisite
in legal description."
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Thus for our man the Reverend Doctor.
Allmack he depends
"The propriety of a inflicting mode of punishment depending depends principally
to upon circumstances which it is impossible to
"enumerate or define beforehand! or at any at that rate to ascertain
"with that exactness which is requisite in legal descriptions!
This is as much as to say that it is impossible for the business
of punishment to be carried
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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