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appears to arise from Her Majesty's Government having subsequently attached to the rendition of criminals another
'condition not contained in the
and
a
Greaty,
your supposition that this involved
guarantee that neither leefore, during
after trial, should such criminal be subject to torture
ON
barbarous punishment.
In these comprehensive terms would
11 be included not only
the mode of execution
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dictation
tc
on conviction in
"Capital cases, in contravention of the
Criminal code of bhina, but
a direct
interference with the judicial practice
ure as established.
and whole mode of procedure by law and custom in Chinese Courts.
The Chinese Government after much
negotiation
were induced with some
reluctance to Concede the first point, and
gawe
the
no Criminal
required quarantee that surrendered by a British Cuthority should
be subjected to the plow proces of execution
by torture, temmed "Ling Chih" in their
Criminal code, and to
ensure
otherwise provide for what
contrary
to the Penal Laws,
this and
was in effect
an onder was
obtained that the case of any
Criminal
liable by law to the "ding-bhih" or slow death by torture surrendered by a Buition Authority should be referred to the Yamên of Foreign Affairs. And the Prince of Kung undertook in all such cases to
the Emperor to commute the Sentence of "ding khih" to summary decapitations
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