Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-12 | Page 4 | Society's Revenge

SOCIETY'S REVENGE I IF F IT IS true that a conscience can be an instrument of torture Theodore Lily sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to life imprisonment shot should d go through an endless inquisition Lily who was holding up a grocery when a little eight- eight year-old year boy entered heartlessly shot down the child The Detroit judge who sentenced the murderer decried the fact that his state does not have haye capital punishment The only objection to conscience as an avenger of wrong is the fact that those who commit the gravest sins have been hardened usually by such a series of encroachments that their suffering is less keen than those whose errors are few It is only at the be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning of wrongdoing it would seem that conscience makes a coward of a man Certainly Certainly Certainly Lily Llly had nothing to warn him of the moral wrongness of his act Perhaps during during during dur dur- ing the sentence that he must serve if a pardon board doesn't shorten It his conscience conscience conscience con con- science will awaken again If It does the Judge need not worry because he could not inflict a death sentence There are times when death could be merciful