The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death |
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... punished : for the frequency of the punishment makes it so familiar , as it is not feared . For example , what a lamentable case is it to see so many christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows , insomuch , as ...
... punished : for the frequency of the punishment makes it so familiar , as it is not feared . For example , what a lamentable case is it to see so many christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows , insomuch , as ...
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... death . By this practice , capital inflictions are multiplied , and crimes , very different in their degrees of enormity , are equally subjected to the severest punishment that man has the power of exercising upon man . The lawgiver is ...
... death . By this practice , capital inflictions are multiplied , and crimes , very different in their degrees of enormity , are equally subjected to the severest punishment that man has the power of exercising upon man . The lawgiver is ...
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... murder , is to reduce murder to robbery ; to confound in com- mon minds the gradations of iniquity , and incite the commis- sion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with death , very few ...
... murder , is to reduce murder to robbery ; to confound in com- mon minds the gradations of iniquity , and incite the commis- sion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with death , very few ...
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... punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution , will be seldom discovered ; and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime till they deserve death , because , if they had been sooner prose- cuted ...
... punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution , will be seldom discovered ; and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime till they deserve death , because , if they had been sooner prose- cuted ...
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... punish- ment , and even death itself is necessary to be annexed to laws in many cases by the prudence of lawgivers ... punishment is to deter men from offending , it never can follow from thence , that it is lawful to deter them at any ...
... punish- ment , and even death itself is necessary to be annexed to laws in many cases by the prudence of lawgivers ... punishment is to deter men from offending , it never can follow from thence , that it is lawful to deter them at any ...
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