An Enquiry How Far the Punishment of Death is Necessary in Pennsylvania
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Be this G 2 »$ ( 54 ) as it may, little can be inferred from the example of fo peculiar a people, who are more governed by manners and religion, than by laws 5 otherwiie it might be obierv- ed, that thofe of the luperior call: or tribe, are exprelsly ex- empted from capita!^ though they are fubje/T:ed to other punifhments : and there is no good ground to believe, that this exemption ever corrupted the heart or tempted to the commifiion of crimes. See Spirit Laws. B. 14. ch. 15. Rayncl vol. i. S...ketches Hift. Hindoft. 30c. I. Hindoo Code. 1777. paflim. Roberts. Ind. 263. In China, where the population is computed at 6c millions, aftrift adminiftraiion of jufticeis iaid to fuper- fede the neceffity of many capital puniTaments. We arc told that no crimes are puniflied with death, except trea- fon and murder ; and that in this extenfive country, not more than loperfons are executed in a year. Sullivans Philof. Raps. 156. There is reafon to believe that the laws of China are at once mild and efficient : But the accounts we have of that people are imperfeft and con- tradiftory.
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