JB/116/043/001

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16 Nov 1802 88

Letter 3
The estimate of the pernicious effects of capital punishment would
be incompleat indeed if it were supposed to be confined
to that the particular cases in part of the legal code to which that punishment
is annexed employed.To this to all other causes
put together — to the silent and influence of this
punishment upon that we are indebted
for all their human but promiscuous and vulgar errors and
maxims and propensities on the part of one of our jurisprudence by which the certainty of punish-
-ment has been enfeebled weakened on the side of certainty, and its
influence on the guilty minds minds of delinquents rendered paralyzed
and rendered inefficient: 1 why so many all their rules of which
were but receipts for avoiding to find this trouble when from the
execution of the law upon evil doers is the it leads to?
is to be the consequence of it - all those
of by which the guilty are let free which are
so many sources of triumph to the guilty and disappointment oppression
and forth any to the innocent and the injured. [+ it is
+2. Ask why it is the
not propensity and
only the propensity but
the and
the praise of all men -
each in his option
to and
to fruitless the
and
the elements distant will of those
when wills are sup-
posed to include the
wills of all
to break the promies
to render impotent
the threats proclaimed by
the legislators
the business and the glory of the Judges to undo
the work which has cost so much trouble to the legislator
to hold up the laws to to set an example
of that which would be the first to punish
in other men? — in favorius is explicitly or with or without
his inexplicably the excuse.
3. Why it is become a
matter of most in on
the first of our regard ot
individuals to
public indeed was
to shrink from the
to forbear to
of or to
throw it up when taken
in hand: — on the part
of the Jury man be made
his comtempt ot the laws
and of by what
has been called a
perjury: on the part of
the Judge instead of a
upon the Juryman
to be his and
in the commission
of this of that

Which is to be the body capital
punishment may be to be the body natural.
a source cause of apparent strength vigor and perhaps
vigor a source of and not weakness. and disease. debility
and impotence.

Identifier: | JB/116/043/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / f88
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37576
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