The law-makers of Switzerland have tested as long as they care to the sentimental policy of dealing with murderers, and one canton has voted to re-establish the death penalty. It is significant that the law-makers of the State of Wisconsin are desirous of abandoning the decree against capital punishment, into which the feeble and vapid Boveo betrayed the State. Bovee hasn’t been much heard of lately, and it is fair to presume* that the anti-capital-pun-ishment agitator will no longer yield him a self-sustaining revenue. It may be therefore that he will not make any desperate effort to save Wisconsin murderers from the just penalty for taking human life. Putting murderers on their honour not to kill by assuring them they will not be hurt if they do kill, has been found to be a very poor check upon the crime of murder. It is more hanging, not less hanging, that is needed in this country.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 940, 23 April 1880, Page 4
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