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OPINIONS

UPON THE

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.

of Death.

THE OPINIONS OF DIFFERENT AUTHORS ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Vol. I. containing the opinions of Dr. Johnson, Sir W. Blackstone, Beccaria, Paley, Montesquieu, Clarkson, Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, Bacon, Coke, Colquhoun, Pastoret, Dr. Franklin, Goldsmith, Mercier, Eden, Kelynge, Bentham, Howard, Bradford, Rush, Turner, &c. &c. Longman and Co.

DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT IN THE YEAR 1810, upon the Bills for Abolishing the PUNISHMENT of DEATH for Stealing to the amount of Forty Shillings in a Dwelling House,-for Stealing to the amount of Five Shillings Privately in a Shop,-and for Stealing on Navigable Rivers. By BASIL MONTAGU, Esq. Longman, and Co.

A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, in the last and present Sessions, upon the several BILLS introduced with a view to the AMENDMENT of the CRIMINAL LAW. Together with a GENERAL REVIEW of the ARGUMENTS used in the Debates upon those occasions. 1811. Longman and Co.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW OF ENGLAND; by Sir S. ROMILLY. Cadell and Davies.

VARIOUS LETTERS in THE PHILANTHROPIST. Longman and Co.

ANTI-DRACO'S LETTERS TO SIR S. ROMILLY. Clarke and Sons.

HINTS FOR A REFORM IN THE CRIMINAL LAW, IN A LETTER TO SIR S. ROMILLY; by a LATE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. Mawman.

THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM FRANKLAND, ESQ. ON THE 29TH OF MARCH, 1811. Ridgeway.

THEORIE DES PEINES ET DES RECOMPENSES; par BENTHAM. Dulau.

OPINIONS

OF

DIFFERENT AUTHORS

UPON THE

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH,

SELECTED

BY

BASIL MONTAGU, ESQ.

OF LINCOLN'S INN.

VOL. III.

London:

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PREFACE.

THERE appear to be four questions of the utmost importance in the formation of any system of penal law. These questions are:

1. Do men love cruel laws?

2. Is the ease with which a crime may be committed a justification for any and what augmentation of the punishment?

3. Ought the passion of anger to have any and what influence in criminal legislation ?

4. How does punishment chiefly operate in the prevention of crime?

There are some observations upon each of these subjects in the conclusion of this volume:*-With respect to the last question, viz. How does punishment chiefly operate in the prevention of crime? it is stated to have been said in the House of Commons on Feb. 5, 1810, "It is not by the fear of death but by exciting in the community a sentiment of horror against any particular act that we can hope to deter

* Beginning at page 373.

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