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    culprit , returning from solitary confinement and hard labour , with greater industry to his useful occupations , his evil propensities corrected , if not eradicated ; or

    that of cutting him off by an igno * . minious death , which hurries the unhappy individual into an awful eternity , and for ever brands his family ^ . nd friends with undeserved infamy ? Example , too , has been assigned as g . gpod reason for public punishments less than capital ,

    but their effects on the spectators aj £ liable to the same objections , 3 , s public capital punishments ; and their ^ fleets on the punished are lamentable indeed : has not

    the placing a ppor unchaste wo * man on a reperttiug- ^ tool , to the 3 Com of a whole congregation , been * with the greatest propriety , laid aside in most towns , as being found to increase the crime of child-murder , instead of lessening

    that vice whose punishment it is ; soj , also , public punishments less than capital ^ will , instead of lessening their corresponding crimes * be found rather to lead to others of a deeper dye , kC for the person so punished thenceforth and thereby , in proportion to the infamy of his punishment , is lost to the feelings of pride and shame , and

    consequently fitted for greater enormities ; " but although t , fyss $ consequences were not produced on the delinquent , what master , if he could get another servant , would employ a mau who had been rendered iiilao ) ous by an ig .

    nominiQUS public puqi $ hp > ent ? so thpt frpm this cause , . aipne 9 ^ e miserable outcast . v % obliged to *> tealor rofy f . ip order tp maintain * iy yvrqichh < i $ * i ^ ij £ e £ he mu ; st ^^^ it ^^ j \ ^ 4 n » . ^ oA '^ ; a , o ci if he do c * 50 , thpimh h * be 4 « tecU

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    ed , he can be no more than h amrea But these causes of dete rionjL are not traced by the popul ace * they only see him who latel y was whipped or pilloried for some petty theft , standing his trial at m * t assiaes ^ perhaps for robbery or housebreaking , and those who have any temptations to theft , aie thus brought to regard the punish , ment annexed to it , siace it effects

    so little , as very trifling . It has been often asked , in a triumphant manner , by the advocates for capital punish roe at ; Are we to tfyrow the prison d ^ ors open ? Are we to allow unprincipled men to run on m their career of wicked *

    ness with in ? punity $ Cati there be any safety in society \\\\ they be destroyed ? or is society itself compatibly ^ vith their existence ? To the two fir ^ t I answer * the prison-doors certainly are not to be thrown open ; f nor are vfllaiM

    to be allowed to go on in their career of wickedness 5 for iwitlcr of these consequences follows from the abolition of capital ptmwbf < menu " Was the vast empire of Russia worse regulated ^ less civiU

    ized , less social ^ or kss .. secure , under the Empresses Elizabeth and Catharine the Second , tbaa \ ujder thek more sanguinary predecessors ? yet neither of these princesses did , throughout tbeic

    whole adrpinistratipn , inflict imj punishment of de ^ th , and the latter upon full persuasion ^ i » being useless , nay even pernioous , gave ordersior abol ^ Wngitenti ^ - ly , throughout l ^ r extepsive ^ - minions / 1 Um W ^ the abo » - tipiX of a * pM pwnbhment to » necessarily fallowed , b $ bad cj ^ seq ^ enc ^ , of ^ U plf ^ JJ ? foI vvpr id that ^ cpuWJ ^ . th $ se con ^ quences j it wouia

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    jB $ 4 0 ^ Capital Punishment * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/4/