Show A great effort is being made in Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts to abolish capital punishment punish-ment We hope i will crystallze Into law I with it the prisons of a State i could be arranged to grade prisoners to keep youthful petty offenders from graduating In the sinister arts of tho confirmed convict the change would be seen to be a mighty benefit Under the benefitofthedoubt Instruction many men who are guilty escape punishment pun-ishment while because of tho dimmed visions of courts and jurors sometimes I innocent men suffer Under the changed law guilty men would be convicted con-victed men guilty of first offenses I would have a chance to reform and no innocent mans life wojjld be placed in Jeopardy Capital punishment Is a shadow upon our boasted civilization |