CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4488, 7 August 1930, Page 4

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

ARGUMENTS FOR A ISO LIT lON. CITY MISSIONER'S VIEWS. “I believe that the arguments in favour of the abolition of capital punishment are considerably stronger than those against,” said the Rev. Jasper Calder in an address at the Auckland City Mission’s service on Sunday evening. Mr. Gaidar added that in no case had the abolition of the death penalty in a country ever resulted in an increase in the number of murders. In Chicago, which had always retained the supreme penalty, many murders were committed. -

“I can assure you (hat in almost every instance the relatives of a murdered person sign a petition for the reprieve of the offender. They sav Hint to have another person killed is not going it) help them. Capital punishment inflicts terrible suffering on others beside tin* condemned man. Think of his relations. It does not matter how long times goes on, a thoughtless public never forgets. “Sooner or later we must realise the fact that capital punishment does not deter murderers and never will. The possibility of wrong judgments and the harm to reinlives and others, toe-other with the fael lb.it here is an alternative in

certain terms of itnprisonmen!, make me believe in the abolition oi Ihe dentil sentence. People best uiialilicd In know will tell you that I tic average murderer does not behave as an ordinary criminal. Hr longs for liberty and may be reformed by a term of imprisonment.”