A popular essay on subjects of penal law, and on uninterrupted solitary confinement at labor, as contradistinguished to solitary confinement at night and joint labor by day, in a letter to John Bacon / by Francis Lieber.

  • Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A popular essay on subjects of penal law, and on uninterrupted solitary confinement at labor, as contradistinguished to solitary confinement at night and joint labor by day, in a letter to John Bacon / by Francis Lieber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ridicule. Censure. Dishonor. Declaration of unworthiness of public confidence. Privation of privileges. Degradation. Distinction in dress. Infamation of the offender. u of his descendants. Pillory. Whipping. Public whipping. Branding. Infliction of pain otherwise than by whipping. Imprisonment. Imprisonment with public labor. Exile. Transportation. Maiming. Death. Death with additional pains or infamatory procedures. Jipology.—(Jlmende honorable,) asking pardon publicly. Strictly speaking, we cannot count the asking pardon publicly a punishment within the sphere of the state; for obliging an individual to ask for something which it is not in the power of the state to oblige another to grant, is futile. The state cannot force me to pardon, because it is a strictly moral act, over which the state has no control. If, however, we sub- stitute for it a public declaration of honor, an avowal that no offence was meant by certain words, and that the offender has no intention of injuring the reputation of the offended, or that, though he meant an offence, he is now sorry for having used certain words, it is in certain cases a wise punishment. Being sorry for what we have done is a strictly moral act indeed, but the state has power over the declaration of this sentiment, if the law allows it as an alternative, either to make this declara- tion, or to undergo a real punishment. The amende honor-