MURDERS INCREASE
AS DEATH PENALTY RELAXES [United Press Association—By Electric 'Telegraph.—Copyright.] PARIS, Jan. 1. The partial suppression of the death penalty in France has had a disastrous result on the murder statistics, as no alternative to the guillotine has yet been devised. Even hard labour on Devil’s Island, which is the second severest punishment in the penal code, seems mild—almost like a pardon—in comparison with beheading, especially as some of the con /lets quick ly escape ifroni the island to a foreign country, whence extraditions are impossible. The Prison Council of France, therefore, is now considering the embodying of solitary confinement for life in the penal code for murderers escaping the death penalty. ‘ltaly recently adopted a system of lifelong solitary confinment in special isolated circular cells. The authorities state that these criminals regard this punishment as being worse than death. The question however, is whether French public opinion will favour a punishment recalling the. tortures of' 'tlie MiddleAges. V-
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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160MURDERS INCREASE Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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