THE LAST PENALTY.
Tahi Kaba has paid the last dread penalty. He went to his.end with a courage, a fearlessness, .which is almost astounding in one so young. When asked if he had anything to say, he. replied firmly: "I hope I am the ilastman to he hanged, anyway."' This ihope will find an echo an thousands of breasts in New Zealand. The ©allows has no justification in a Christian, country, and among civilised peoples. The crime of 'homicide is not affected in the least by the terrors of the scaffold. As a deterrent the 'brutality of 'hanging has been grossly magnified. Even Kaka, the Native youth who was (condemned for imurder, appeared to know the responsibility before he committed the crime, "for when arrested he asked, "When will I he hanged?" Criminologists are now treating crime as a disease, and in New Zealand we have come to recognise it as soioh. How the execution of one criminal oan eradicate disease from another is a problem which advocates of the barbarous gallows can he hest left to answer. The public conscience ha.s been awakened, and there 'will be a strong demand for the abolition of -capital punishment from one end of the Dominion to the other.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10269, 22 June 1911, Page 4
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206THE LAST PENALTY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10269, 22 June 1911, Page 4
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