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to despair, or makes him a sworn enemy to that
state, whose laws have placed him in so degrading
a position, that the hope or possibility of raising
himself from it has been cut off, all means of
obtaining a living and regaining the respect and
confidence of his fellow creatures being to him closed."
All other degrading punishments as penance,
pillory and the stocks, are also excluded from the
project “as not conducive to the improvement of
the criminal, and likewise failing to awake in others
a warning, and an aversion for crime."
With regard to capital-punishment, the
committee has made two propositions; one in which
it is retained, but for more limited cases; the other
with the introduction of imprisonment for life in
its place. The committee, however, consider that
capital-punishment “cannot be defended, before the
tribunal of reason and justice, on any other ground,
than its being found necessary for, and conducive
to the existence and objects of the state. But this
necessity and applicability are doubtful."
The new project adopts two kinds of
punishment attended with loss of freedom, namely:
penallabour and imprisonment, on the ground “that the
loss of liberty for a considerable time, with
obligation to labour, is a means of punishment which,
when we consider the rational nature of man, may
be regarded as the most applicable for the
advancement of the object of punishment. Experience
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