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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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The French Republic proposes major changes to its Penal and Criminal Code, including replacing Presidents with Pretors overseeing multiple departments, annual reporting in Paris, assistance by Proprietors and Suppleans, and harsher punishments like hand amputation for parricide, public gibbets, and reintroduction of tortures such as breaking on the wheel for conspirators against the Chief Magistrate.
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According to this project, Pretors are to succeed the Presidents. The jurisdiction of each Pretor will contain several departments...He is obliged to appear at Paris once in the year, to give an account of the judicial affairs of his district. This Magistrate is to be assisted by Proprietors and Suppleans. The Proprietors are to be attached to the tribunals of the first instance, and are to form the criminal tribunals, in meeting once a year at a certain fixed period.
Crimes are to be punished with a more rigorous pain than death. The cessation of life is to be preceded by torments which augment the horror certain destruction inspires. For example, the parricide will have his right hand cut off before he loses his life, his corpse is to be buried on the spot where he committed the crime, and over his grave is to be fixed a gibbet, with his name and the nature of his guilt: In certain cases, even the tortures which during the reign of Louis XVI were laid aside and proscribed, are again to be introduced; and for conspirators, when the death of the Chief Magistrate is plotted, the criminal is to be broken upon the wheel.
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In the new project for a Penal and Criminal Code, about to be discussed by the tribunals of the French Republic, great changes are proposed. According to this project, Pretors are to succeed the Presidents. The jurisdiction of each Pretor will contain several departments...He is obliged to appear at Paris once in the year, to give an account of the judicial affairs of his district. This Magistrate is to be assisted by Proprietors and Suppleans. The Proprietors are to be attached to the tribunals of the first instance, and are to form the criminal tribunals, in meeting once a year at a certain fixed period. Crimes are to be punished with a more rigorous pain than death. The cessation of life is to be preceded by torments which augment the horror certain destruction inspires. For example, the parricide will have his right hand cut off before he loses his life, his corpse is to be buried on the spot where he committed the crime, and over his grave is to be fixed a gibbet, with his name and the nature of his guilt: In certain cases, even the tortures which during the reign of Louis XVI were laid aside and proscribed, are again to be introduced; and for conspirators, when the death of the Chief Magistrate is plotted, the criminal is to be broken upon the wheel.