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Show Episcopal Bishop Is in Fayor of Capital Punishment Albany, I. Y, Jan. 15. "Whomsoever "Whomso-ever sheddcth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed." This wa3 the answer of the Right Rev. Croawell Doane, bishop of the episcopal dioceso of Albany, when asked whether he believed in the abolition of capital punishment, tho question having been suggested by the attitude of Gov, Dix and Col. Joseph Jo-seph F. Scott, state superintendent of prisons who have announced their belief that the death penalty should 'be abandoned in this state. "Capital punishment is right" the bishop said. "The objection to it is sentimental. Those who have been declaring themselves In favor of tho removal of the death penalty overlook over-look the one great significant InstructionGod's In-structionGod's own word which I havo quoted." |