Death Penalty

Grey River Argus, 4 October 1948, Page 8

Death Penalty

WELLINGTON, Oct. 1. Hon. J. Roberts (Wellington) in the Legislative Council said: "i do not beuevu in capital punishment, and particularly I abhor hanging.” He was of the opinion that a country should de its best to abolish crime, particularly among youths, and the way to do tnui ..as lu teach them farming, trades and the crafts. If people were unfitted to be in human society there was sane ways and human ways of doing away with them. Crime should be punished, and those who committed the crimes should pay the penalty. If the human race spent as much money and time m educating people as it spent in brutalising and destroying people there would be more intelligent people. When countries stopped brutality against the people and educated the people then crimes of a brutal nature would be stopned.

ADVOCATE OF THE LASH Hon. E. R. Davis (Auckland), who raised the subject, said he believed the abolition of the death penalty had been a great mistake and caused a miscarriage of justice. The death sentence should be there as a deterrcn Restitution of the death penalty would saves lives of unfortunate persons. What was most likely to stop an increase of crime among youths and boys was the lash, a good sound flogging, or a whipping that would act as a deterrent for boys from 14 years to 17 years.