A YEAR'S RECORD OF THE GALLOWS IN RUSSIA.
Statistics show that the annual average of executions in Russia from 1842 t0'1904 was 15.' From August, 1906, to' February, 1907, there were 950 executions, while the total for tlio wholo of 1906 was 1642. In 1907, 1692 death sentences wore passed, of which 748 wero carried out. The figures for the current yoar are on a similar scale. • Ono hundred and three deputies of the Left Parties and Constitutional Democrats, with somo Octobrists, have introduced a Bill in tho Duma for tho abolition of capital punish-ment.-^-Router.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 10
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95A YEAR'S RECORD OF THE GALLOWS IN RUSSIA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 10
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