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Show At Last the French pejplo aeoaj to have had enough of those blcody executiond which have been so frequent fre-quent and papular in Fa rig. Tbe papers are denouncing the public executions icr thc-ir brutalizing t3;jdcnciej. Tqq Liberie, speaking of the gui'Utioing of the murderer. Lsbiez ar.d Barre, cays: "Nothing is nioro hideous, more distressing than these human sacrifices maue before the ey3 of a populace as greedy to gloat upDu the spectacle as were the paau Kamans in their circuses to behold the contests of gladiators and tho tortures of tho martyrs. Iu our c;v:li".3d and christianizad society these dreadful spectacles aro an inconceivable in-conceivable anachronism. If the interest of society demands that the assassin shall sufi'iir according to the kx (aliojiis. if the dcalb penally muet continue to be maintained, let the last extremities of the law be executed within the walls of a prison in the prcacncc of official witnesses solely and let the guilty man be suppressed in silence without making bis death a epect tdt: p.cder to the coarse tit'?-) of the mob withal." |