CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
MAGISTRATE CALLS IT “MEDIAEVAL BARBARITY” N.Z.’S ENLIGHTENED LAWS (From Our Own Correspondent) WHANOAREI, Tuesday. “There is a movement in England at present to abolish capital punishment, and I sincerely hope it will succeed, for capital punishment is a persistence of mediaeval barbarity,” said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in delivering an address to the annual meeting of the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce last evening. The address dealing with the his.tory and sociology of litigation, traced the slow realisation of the judicial barbarity that hanged men and women a century ago for petty thefts, and showed the development of a saner and sounder system to-day that aimed to save the offender from himself as well as to protect society. Mr. Luxford said that New Zealand was particularly advanced in the series of enlightened enactments that gave to its penal system one of the most scientific, human and effective touches in the world, of which the Child Welfare, Borstal and Probation administrations were gratifying illustrations.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 541, 19 December 1928, Page 18
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165CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 541, 19 December 1928, Page 18
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