THE GUILLOTINE AGAIN.
POSITION IN FRANCE. (BY TBIiEBUArn—ritESS ABSOCUTION'— COPTOIOItT.) ' ' ' Paris, January 11. < Twenty-two persons aro ,awaiting execution in Franco, Thore has been no capital punishment since 1905. Four of the condemned will be- publioly guillotined at Bethnne, in tho department of tho Pas de Calais, to-day, in acoordanoo with the recent decision of thfe Chamber of Deputies, maintaining capital punishment on tho Statute Book. 4 <' "DEATtf 10 MURDERERB." THE PARIS CROWD CHEERED, i (Reo. January 12, 9.20 p.m.) ; Paris, January 12. An enormouß orowd troated. the' quadruple oxooution'in Paris as,a popular feto, and shouted "Death to . murderers." They cheered at the fall of each head. I AboljPollot, one of'tho condemned men, admitted 250 orhnes,
The French Government wag in favour ef abolition of capital punishment, but ultimately Übandonod its Bill to• thai effect; the great Inereasb ef crimes of vlolenco since the death penalty was suspended having aroused popular , indignation.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 7
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151THE GUILLOTINE AGAIN. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 7
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