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Pensylania one execution yearly in 829,000 Inhabitants.
Bavaria one — — 2,000,000 —
Prussia one — — 1,700,000 —
Vermont since 1814 none.
Belgium since 1830 none.
Notwithstanding the number of executions, in
proportion to the population, is greatest in Spain,
and next in Sweden and Ireland, it is well known,
that the amount of crime is not less there; but on
the contrary, greater than in many other countries,
where capital punishment is not at all, or at least
very sparingly used. It is also found that
capital-punishment is least necessary in those states, where
most attention is paid to (be diffusion of knowledge,
and the abolishment of those bonds which fetter
individual industry; the example of Prussia is in
these respects very remarkable.
Capital-punishment must farther be considered
in some other important points of view. It does
not admit of improvement, because it annihilates,
at once, both the good intentions and the evil
propensities. It is generally believed, that but little
hope can be entertained, of the improvement of
such as have merited the severest punishment the
law can inflict. Both judges and jailers acknowledge,
however, that they, who are condemned to death,
frequently appear less hardened or morally fallen,
than other delinquents, whose renewed offences are,
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