WORSE THAN DEATH
FRENCH SUBSTITUTE FOR GUILLOTINE MIDDLE AGES TORTURE PARIS, Tuesday. The partial suppression of the death penalty has had a disastrous result on the number of murders, as no alternative to the guillotine has as yet been devised. Even hard labour on Devil’s Island, which is the second severest punishment in the penal code, seems mild in comparison with beheading, especially as some convicts quickly escape to a foreign country, whence extradition is impossible. The Prison Council of France is now considering embodying solitary confinement for life in the penal code for murderers who escape the death penalty. Italy recently adopted a system of life-long solitary confinement in special isolated circular cells. The authorities state that criminals regard this punishment as being worse than death. The question, however, is whether French public opinion will favour a punishment which recalls the tortures of the Middle Ages
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 860, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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147WORSE THAN DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 860, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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