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203. Historically, the state has interfered first through the civil process; gradually, as public alarm gets excited, more and more offences come to be treated as crimes

204. Punishment must also be reformatory (this being one way of being preventive), i.e. it must regard the rights of the criminal

205. Capital punishment is justifiable only (a) if it can be shown to be necessary to the maintenance of society, (b) if there is reason to suppose the criminal to be permanently incapable of rights

206. Punishment, though directly it aims at the maintenance of rights, has indirectly a moral end, because rights are conditions of moral well-being.

M. The right of the state to promote morality.

207. (4) (See sec. 156). The right of free life is coming to be more and more recognised amongst us negatively; is it reasonable to do so little positively to make its exercise possible?

208. First observe that the capacity for free life is a moral capacity, i.e. a capacity for being influenced by a sense of common interest