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You, then, abolish the corporal penalty
by remitting imprisonment. For whom? For thieves and temple-robbers, for
parricides, murderers, shirkers, and deserters. All such men you protect by your
law. And yet does not a man who, under a free constitution, legislates, not to
protect the temples, not to protect the people, but to protect such people as I
have named, deserve to suffer the extreme penalty?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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