Punishment by Death

Excerpt from Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency Pit retribution, by the moral code Determined, lies beyond the State's embrace, Yet, as she may, for each peculiar case, She plants well measured terrors in the road Of wrongful acts. Downward it is, and broad; And the main fear once doomed to banishment, Far oftener then, bad ushering worse event, Blood would be spilt, that in his dark abode Crime might lie better hid And should the change Take from the horror due to a foul deed, Pursuit and evidence so far must fail, And, guilt escaping, Passion then might plead In angry spirits for her old free range, And the wild justice of Revenge prevail. Wordsworth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.