Robbers reasoning upon contrasting sanguinary laws and slavery, 24, 25.
Robbery not capital in Pennsylvania, 268.

in Denmark, 274.

of the mint, 149.

Russia, 178, 302.

law of, 13, 248.
punishment in, 44.

executions in, 248.

SACRIFICES, human, 26.

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Sanctions intended to be temporary, lasting efficacy given to, 8.
Sanguinary laws, bad symptom of the distemper of a state, 15. 207,
-, distemper of a state, 207.

tive power, 16.

number of, proof of the weakness of the legislative or execu-

Sanguinary, improper term, 123.

Savages tender of life, 170.

Saxons had scarcely any capital crime, 170.

Scale of punishment, 16, 74.

Scripture, passage in, supposed to justify capital punishments, 288.

-, examination of its supposed justification of capital punishment, 298.

Sentence for high treason, 198.

Sentences, mitigation f evil attending, 4:

Servants in Philadelphia prison, 48

Severe laws, proof of decline of public morals, 36.
and decay of government, ibid.

, cannot be executed, 29, 137.

Severity and certainty, 18, 60

of laws, 9, 62, 125, 133, 203.

Shame, 301.

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its tendency to defeat punishment known by criminals, 6.

doubts whether it ought not to pruce impunity, 5.

more fit for monarchies than republics, 35.

prevents discovery, 7.

offenders calculate upon escape, ibid.

in England may be safely relaxed, 172.

ought not to be increased, 212

, barbarizes public feelings, 18, 32, 41, 135, 200, 231, 297, 254.
opinion of its efficacy, 3,

increases crime, 5, 6, 7, 14, 18, 37, 41, 42, 50, 52, 67,
71, 85, 86, 103, 134, 147, 148, 170, 179, 182, 203,
204, 230, 232, 254, 261, 271, 277, 293.

of punishment,

, consequences of,

destroys the proportion between crime and punishment,
19, 134.

occasions impunity, 19.

effects of, 72.

defeats itself by exciting pity, 4.

diminishes abhorrence for crime, 32.

pity for criminal, ibid.

what proper, 22.

no excuse for, 137.

Slavery, 23, 55.
Sloth, 229.

Solitary confinement, 272, 301.

Stealing privately, ought not to be punished capitally, 30.
Stoics opinion of the equality of crimes erroneous, 54.
Superiority, love of, cause of punishment of death, ibid.
Sweden, 256,

-, executions in, 247.

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TABLE of prisoners tried in one year, at the Old Bailey, 84.

--, of offenders and offences in England, for different periods, 233, 234, 236,
236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243.

" in Scotland, 242.

in Ireland, 243.

of punishments in Pennsylvania, 267.

Tableau de Paris, extract from, 175.

Temporary motives induce persons to enact penalties,

Theft ought not to be punished capitally, 54.

not capitally punished by mosaic law, 54.

how punishable by laws of Plato, 151.

in England, 162. 178.

mode of punishing, 54, 56.

domestic, ought not to be punished capitally, 179.

Thirteen persons executed in England for being in company with gypsies, 206.
Times past, experience of, shews the inefficacy of capital punishment, 3.
Torture unknown in England, 9.

used in Hanover, 244.

first abolished in England, 303.

Torments, 20, 184.

Transportation, 31, 178, 189, 226.

Treason, its enormity, 74

Trials in ngland all public, 9.

Truth and justice, criminal law should be conformable to, 8.

will ultimately be prevalent, 26.

Tuscany, law of, 255, 288.

Turner, his opinions, 291.

VIOLENCE, increase of, notwithstanding severe punishment, 3.

Violating the law, 147.

Voltaire, his commentary on Beccaria, 177.

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