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Show Cepitel ruciiehtnent. I.on'svllie Times. . The Indianapolis HijitinA thinks it safe to predict lhat twenty-five years from now capital punishment will not be enforced in any civilized country. Tliis is a view which people of tender der feelings sanguiuely took loug ago, but the criminal history of this aud other countries furnishes little to disturb dis-turb the belief thai murder m.iv be most certainly restrained by executing the marderer. Iu one or two of ih United States th experiment of abol-ishingeapttal abol-ishingeapttal punishment has been tried w ithout Mt.siactory results and the oid method reinstated. In the eastern .state where the leg'd pena ty for taking human hu-man iiie is inflicted more certaiuiv aud swiftly than aoy where, there are fewer murders to the population, and in Europe the proportion of homicioes is still smaller. The gallows, the guibo-tine, guibo-tine, the garrote, the electrici l death chair, are not pleasing things to an aesthetic eye, but so long as they are held up to the vision of the vicious and the brutal, human lile is safer than it would otherwise bo, aod those classes are likely to exist until far greater progress pro-gress in the, atudy of criminal science has been made than at present. |