KAHA TO BE HANGED.
Tie law is to take its course. Tahi Kaha, the Native youth who murdered a giundigger, is to pay the last penalty on the gallows. Revolting though the crime for winch he was condemned, the tragedy at the scaffold will be more horrible. The public conscience will be aroused by the grim spectacle of a mere stripling being despatched by the hangman, and the law of capital- punishment will be searchingly reviewed. After all, the "blood for Wood" provision in our criminal code is a relic of barbarism. It is a cruel, pitiless, 'harrowing abomination which lias no justification in a civilised country. The brutality of the thing is beyonddescription. The sacrifice of this boy's life may vindicate the-law. If it should result—as it probably 'will do—in the sweeping off the Statute Book of a reproach to humanity and a Christian people, the price paid, heavy though it be, may not be; too great.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 4
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158KAHA TO BE HANGED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 4
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