China of the Chinese

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China of the Chinese
E T C Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner
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But it was shortly found necessary to reduce the amount of strokes inflicted from 500 to 300 and from 300 to 200, and subse- quently still further, because a man subjected to 500 strokes frequently died, so that " though the emperor got the credit for having decreased the severity of punishments, in reaKty he caused the death of the criminals." The punishment of castration was, however, still inflicted, as in the case of Ssu-ma Ch'ien, the historian, in 98 B.C. for extenuating the conduct of Li... Ling (a commander in the service of the Han emperor, Wu), whose family was exterminated as a Digiti ized by Google Political Institutions 153 pmMsbment for his defeat by the Hsiung Nu. In 148 B.a, the punishment of tsi, being cut open in the market-place, was changed to being " cast out in the market," i.e., pubhc execution. In 43 B.C., the death penalty applied to only thirty-four crimes, but in 6 B.C., to eighty-one, in forty-two of which mitigation was permitted. Leniency was supposed to have led to increase in crime, and the usual course was adopted of memorializing the throne to revert to the former standard.

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