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Before capital punishment was abolished in Canada, the Toronto Jail was the site of a number of hangings.
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Before and punishment
Before these monsters the hero's courage failed and by them was led away to eternal punishment.
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Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.
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