| Show I CAPIT CAPITAL AL PUNISHMENT DISCUSSED IN PULPIT t Reformation Not Punishment Urged by Minister at Unitarian Unitarian Uni Uni- Church Abolition of ot capital punishment was the subject of or an III open discussion at attilo tho tilo Unitarian church last evening No Xo vot vote was taken at conclusion of the thc discussion but the tho sentiments ex expressed ex- ex pressed presed b by speakers fa favored ored doln doing away with the death penalty Horace B. B Thompson led in lust last nights night's discussion which was Dated in b by members of ot the tion o. o Mr r T Thompson lP on first t pointed to tut Ls h is ann anu statistics afterwards ex CX ex- ex pressing personal views with refer reCer- ence to criminal He lie con con- contended tended that in some states capital pun lUll caused hesitancy In convicting men of ot If capital crimes The effect he hu thoughtS thought waa ivas rather to encourage than t t. prevent such crimes It was waa tho the opinion of or Mr Thompson that th the greater need for rOl reform was In swift prosecution conviction and punishment of capital criminals lie He though that perhaps a method of or this character even en though It involved no punishment HO MO severe SC as death would have havo a a. t tendency to diminish capital crimes IIo tIn said sall that public sentiment was vas growing in favor of or abolishment of death as a ct punishment for criminals of or the thc first class clus five Che states In the union ha h having C already done lone away avaY with It and European countries hav In ing abolished that tha t class clas of oC punishment He was wa not flOt prepared to sa say that abolition abo abo- had resulted in Ip diminution of ot capital crime Frederick M. M r. r Bennett the minister radically opposed capital or an any other forn n Ul 1111 1111 contention was that moral defects aro lre II tho the results of or physical defects and that tho the men were In reality not sible for tor their acts act's Where reform of or prisoners rs had been effected ho he said laid th the reformation rc had been b not by Teason Tea rea son tOn of the imprisonment and other punishment but through mental proc proc- eases esses within the man himself J I 1 am out for tor reform of courts and la lawyers ho he concluded The They are arc GOO years ears behind the times and I behove bellevo be- be hove leve that when we wo shall have brought them up to date the reform of or those criminally Inclined will largely Jars take care cara or of itself Congregational Vote Shows Opposition to I Infliction of Death Penalty A majority of or the congregation at tho tilo First Methodist church last night Indicated d opposition to capital punishment punish punish- meat ment b by a rising rising- vote taken at the end of a L discussion of or this form of or Pu punishment n I Sli n I. I Rev nC l Francis Bur Burgette ette Short ShortS the pastor ed In tho the discussion b by taking his stand against capital punishment In Ii any form torm I Due ue consideration 1 of or f tho the III OL It Its various degrees rees i as given shon b by Dr Short along llong with his contentions ag the extreme extremo punishment Dr Short concluded his argument b by saying saYin that if it capital punishment was as not abolished d In itt Utah he lie would apProve ap ap- ap- ap prove the adoption of at tho the electric chair to supplant the present methods of ot execution or han hanging In tue th of or the qU question h by members of oC the tho congre g-atlon g considerable consid consid- erable opposition to capital punishment punish punish- h- h ment developed do on the grounds that through the publics public's selection ofa ota gov gov- and his hits appointment of or an exe exe- r. r the public had actually dele gated gatei lt ItH hangman hans The Thc abolition of or capital punishment would mean the abolition of or the unpleasant ant dut duty de tie tie- 01 upon prison l officials accord accord- III lug to the speakers speaker Dr Short spoke Doke favorably fa of or a plan mentioned to him by br Judge C. C C C. Goodwin Good Good- win whereby would be segregated on ono one of ot the tho Islands of at the Great Salt Snit lake Jake where a a. penal In Institution institution In- In I could bo be established |
