CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1144, 5 August 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

,1/V I TO THE EDIIOH. i Sir,—ln your issue of the 4th inst.'myj attention ..was .arrested bytwolshort para-' 'grajihsf a letter on " Cruelty to; Hab|iiw/':the qth'gr hping a'-jbrjef iele- ( ■graphic'iiii'uunt ' of' 'the' M Ex«c'i)tion of! Winiata." The first-is''spediaNy'addreissed; to •' the„: fttteiitipn jof p'erioris inj a humane person" (in; Ibkunate Vabbit,' Glaiiciiig, in due courseil !ati -the ' second'" • artitJlfej ■ ? I' f^eVe'''realS, i "-Doopors state-that there were signs oft life (in the iiiifgrtuijate Winiata's„bodyi after suspension) for bight n}'inutesV' u,ft ' /1 ' ''How'strange," thus my thoughts! shaped themselves, "How strange,, that fwhi|e' humane persons' are *fdund ;! ib'fuill of- benevolence, bo tender-hearted as to pause and-weep over the death pangs of ;th'ejhated rabbit, mihe UppeaY'ta "spbak for the c'riminal left to the uncertain agonies of death' by strangulation... F-. libelieve, sir, in the neoeßaity<of punitiliiiient but the death, that constitutes that punishment r shoujd be neither liiigering nor cruel, *-It l was recently 1 dS 5 - hionsirated by eminent members of the medical profession in France that death was 'absolutely install'' taheoui, Why is it that in this colony (supposed to be in many sooial matters far j'u/ifdvance of the Mother' Country) 1 the criminal isslowly strangled in a dark pit j Certainly the agonies are concealed from IM' sensitive Wliile science haß demonstrated that a means exists—simple and effectual—for qilenohing instant a nebualy 0 tHe"spark ;: of life—the Guillotine of eolighienedFrance. I am, be., "A Humane Person.