This situation is the more serious in face of the high number of death, sentences pussed already: under the Bandit Law, none of which 30 far howe been executed. According to Article 2 of the Rendition Agree" ment, in cases involving imprison" ment for ten years or morevand in. cases involving the death penalty, the Provisional Court. shall report the same to the Kiangsu Provincial Government for approval. Up. to the present this approval has been withheld in all cases involving the death penalty and there can be no doubt as to what the result will-be if the Supreme Court's interpreta tion is going to be accepted by the Provisional Court, it being. too well Kenown that sentences to imprivon= ment for life are no deterrent.to armed robbers; on the contraxysit makes them more desperate in their operation
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