HANG HIM
JUSTICE DARLING’S VIEWS,
[United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
(Received this riav at 9. a.m.)
LONDON, March 20.
“When a person takes another’s life, Society should not be Iburdened wjith keeping him. in circumstances better than many honest people live in. Therefore it is only right the State should take his life and hav,e ; done with it,” was the opinion of Lord Darling, expressed to a Select Coihinittee on capital punishment The execution of innocents is impo'ssiblq in face of the present intelligent administration of our murder laws,- b’ut many guilty persons escape. He agreed that it was unpleasant to try women for any offence, but lie could not, much as he wished, give any reason why they should not jbe: executed equally as men. At the close of a lengthy interrogation, Justice Darling was asked what in his opinion, was tiie most severe punishment apart from hanging. He replied: “I should say crossexamination.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1930, Page 5
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