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locates for capital punishment , i » - '' that ' ll is allowed in the Mas ^ c code , and since that was given by the Divide Being , therefore it nmst'bfe right . With what
violence and how often has this argument been brought forward by those connected with the slave trade ! that execrable traffic , which has laid every nation in which it is allowed under so deserved a charge of brutality and
savagistfi . But why do not these gentlemen urge implicit obedience to the other laws of Moses , for surely , if their argument be worth tnytbiqg , one iota of those Jaws cannot be infringed with impunity ; unless to Jews , therefore , this arit
flu ent * ^ h ere proves any thing , prove * too much . fut the argument which lias be ^ njarged with the greatest con * fdence , in support of this mode 01 pun * shment i& its operating as
to example , to deter others from like ' < criijaes ; thisr > therefore ^ let w ; p ^ ieiitfy inquire into . It ml b » e aUowed that the sight of a fdl o \ vrcxtature writhing in the * m ?* fdeath , is , of a } l others , W ^ ich strikes us with the
i ^ st horror ; trembling seizes w « M > s , dea ^ h-like paleness ove r-*?«* & the countenance , confuaop ^ vades the mind , we forget "" ^ life f and unless a gush of ** nr ^ li ey ^ : the bursting heart , I ^ JMni ost i nevitabl y profn ! ^ " * n fc Will generally be ' ^ iS ^ . tlw /^ . afafiwt l ^^ lMn ^ ; but it is well . ^ Wia aieJr - - 8 tii ' dyf and may ' jJH ^ M P ur epiu r JJS tKat ofejects which at io tK XCIte di ^ g ^ eable feelings , ^ th rough « habit , become indifl not agreeable : this
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truthy h&w pnanswerabty fi ^ fet ^ f it may be used jxs an tttgutxieht in favour of the beuevbtehc ^ of
Deity , is a 4 eath . blow Io thesy ^ tern of public punishments ^ and iS very convincingly exemplified |> jp the different effects which capftai punishments produce on the ifr 4 habitants of different places r ^ -ffl- '
London , for example , where mtfm are punished in this way than in any other part of the island , the hardened villain , whotfes | jri $ @ £ -bi& punishment and with the gr * at * S £ indifference advance ^ to his fate *
is said by the populace to die like a gentleman , and so far is th 0 example from having any g < T 6 d effect , that it is under the vdiy scaffold where one ' s pursfe is in % H 4
greatest danger : —An Glasgowj od the other band , where sach-exhi * bitious are comparatively ueldoui ^ a portentous stillness piecede ^ ike awful moment , which is
immediately followed by confused mur * murs of grief and pity ; and there was an execution hi Paisley ; about fifty year ^ ago , at which all wh < x were present sang a hjto n . Thus this so much boasted effect on ( lie
beholders , is only prcriluced where the practice b extremely > rare $ and becomes tesstind less at ov ^ ty repeti tion ; but thris is tiwl all , ( at it cannot become less ^ without :- 16 < 3 heart becoming callous aud losing
some at its na propensities 2 and the people becoming more accustomed to scenes of * icu lent death , murder will nedessarily be regarded V 4 lh less hortor ; t&tkd the robber will have bis ^ vemtigp ^ ty ^
on sQci ^ by adding murder * # th at occupaiaoi ^ which ^ Bfl ready ¦ has death for its reward ^ I ask , after these considerations , which is best calculated to prove a good example to others ^ that of the
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On Capital Punishments . ^ i ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/3/
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