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Dawkins simply makes the point that if Saddam had been kept alive, as he would have in any event preferred given his opposition to capital punishment,
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What! because it would have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for the sake of saving from a punishment,
Les Miserables 2008
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Because Cassandra's actions in part seem unintelligible, her own and the other heroines 'sense of self-righteousness sounds sociopathic, if not anarchical; however, insofar as they escape punishment,
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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The IFP was not opposed to alternative sentencing methods, but this had to be done in the right way and with effective punishment,
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For as he was being led either to prison or to punishment,
The Confessions 1999
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A substantial fine would have been sufficient punishment,
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The government will introduce draft legislation during the forthcoming parliamentary session to abolish corporal punishment,
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The Government should forbid the imposition of lashes by lower courts and introduce legislation to prohibit corporal punishment,
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You may with reason share in his treason, and in the punishment,
Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday
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Thus the word "capital" used as the name for the chief city in a country, persists alongside of its use in "capital" punishment,
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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