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Show MURDERERS ESCAPE JUSTICE Startling Array of Figures Presented' by Noted Jurist of Massachusetts f at Prison Congress. Omaha, Neb. Quoting President Taft us saying that "The administration administra-tion of criminal law In this country Is a disgrace to civilization," Judge C. A. De Courcy of Lawrence, Mass., Justli-e of the suierlor court of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, before the American Prison association Tuesday night, pointed out that the l'nlte( States was conspicuous conspicu-ous for the great number of unpunished unpun-ished murderers. "The defense of Insanity, the limitation limita-tion of the power of judges and the i character of testimony allowed to be i introduced In I'ehalf of the defendant w ere some of the evils which." he said, ! "ought to bo reclined. "The number of homicides In this r country for 1910 wan 8,9711 n ln-t ln-t crease of nearly 900 over tho number i In 1!)09; yet but one In eighty six were !i capitally punished In 1910, as against i one In seventy-four during the year o preceding," said Judge De Courcy. "It Is wuld that In IK'.Mi for each mll-lion mll-lion of the population there were 118 g homicides In the United States; In t Italy, less thnn 1.1; In Canada, less , than 13; In Great Hiitaln, less than u 9; In Ciermany. Icbh than C. |