CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN FRANCE.
THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION. GENERAL ALARM CAUSED. Received September 17, 8.12 a.m. i PARIS, September 16. The decision of M. Fallieres, the President, to commute to imprisonment for life the sentence of death passed upon Soleilland, the murderer of a iittle girl, has caused general alarm, coming as it does at a moment when there is a great increase in crimes of violence. Juries at the Seine Assizes and in other places have petitioned the Prepident to maintain the Jaw and continue capital punishment for murder.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8537, 18 September 1907, Page 5
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89CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN FRANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8537, 18 September 1907, Page 5
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