This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...by the dread of his example from offending in the like way, " vt poena (as Tully (p) expresses it) ad paucos, metus ad nmnes, pervcniat;" which gives rise to all ignominious punish 12 ments, and to such executions of justice as are open and public: or, lastly, by depriving the party injuring of the power to do future ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...by the dread of his example from offending in the like way, " vt poena (as Tully (p) expresses it) ad paucos, metus ad nmnes, pervcniat;" which gives rise to all ignominious punish 12 ments, and to such executions of justice as are open and public: or, lastly, by depriving the party injuring of the power to do future mischief; which is effected by either putting him to death, or condemning him to perpetual confinement, slavery, or exile. The same one end, of preventing'future crimes, is endeavoured to be answered by each of these three species of punishment. The public gains equal security, whether the offender himself be amended by wholesome correction, or whether he be disabled from doing any farther harm: and if the penalty fails of both these effects, as it may do, still the terror of his example remains as a wam (o) Grand instructions for framing a new code (p) Pro fluniio, 46. of laws for the Russian empire, i 810. ing to other citizens. The method however of inflicting punishment ought always to be proportioned to the particular purpose it is meant to serve, and by no mean: ) to exceed it: therefore the pains of death, and perpetual disability by exile, slavery, or imprisonment, ought never to be inflicted, but when the offender appears incorrigible: which may be collected either from' a repetition of minuter offences; or from the perpetration of some one crime of deep malignity, which of itself demonstrates a disposition without hope or probability of amendment: and in such cases it would be cruelty to the public to defer the punishment of such a criminal, till he had an opportunity of repeating perhaps the worst of villanies. 3. As to the measure of human punishments. From what has been observed in the former articles we may collect, that th...
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