“HAVE DONE WITH IT.”
THE DEATH PENALTY
FAVOURED BY LORD DARLING.
NO INNOCENT PERSONS HANGED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright. (Received March 21, 9-5 a.m.) LONDON, March 20. “ When a person takes another’s life society should not be burdened with keeping him in circumstances better than many honest people live in; therefore, it is only right that tha State should take his life and have dona with it,” was the opinion cf Lord Darling, a judge of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court cf Justice, expressed to the select committee on capital punishment. He added : “ The execution of Innocent people is impossible in the face of the present Intelligent administration cf our murder laws, but many guilty persons escape.” Lord Darling agreed that It was unpleasant to try a women for any offenco, but he could not, much as he wished, to do so, give any reason why they should not bo executed equally as men. At the close of a lengthy interrogation Lord Darling was asked what in his opinion was the most severe punishment apart from hanging, he replied : “ I should say cross-examination.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17975, 21 March 1930, Page 7
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