To the Editor of the Nonrat-CiuNa Dalny News"
Sim,—In your leader of Saturday, Just you discussed the pros. and cons. of capital punishment and came to the conclusion that, lo ay it is, this mode of punt in order to eradi= cate supreme evi mes, ete, Tam a Baydad born, and lived in that country up to the age of 22. (1807-1889). The yenully for murder under the then Turkish Law was 15 years with some elimination for goo conduct, and 1 ani not sure if same wax with hard labour of simple imprisonment, yet 1 cannot, recall a score of murders to have happened in Bagdad during the last lid one of fmy ancestors used to praise the wisdom of the clemency of this law owing to the fact that in the days of punishment by the "Nouse", crimes of this sort were much more in evidence, To Kill and yet hanged may not very nich weigh with a demented would murderer, but to anguish in gaol for a great number of years, oF for life, is certainly " thing to be con-{sidered and may likely deter a person from committing murder, The Primal Law, or the jungle law, you put it, fie "he that shode seth man's blood, by man shall hi bbe shed" is one ut primitive commands, Gen. 96, unorthodox though Lam, 1 in the wisdom of the generality of the Mosaic Laws. But one must Femember that this command was given at a ime when there was Glahorate organization as we have now, and if the command was meant to eliminate crimes the present day's, gaol system can do the same if not better, A murderer or misdemeanant can be put out of further mischief as effectively by imprison urent for life with no appeal as by capital punishment, and society could have been saved the con amination of such as Landru and, "the man of the bath" by such Many who were condemned to death and suffered the penalty were found afterwards to be innocent,
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