Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-05-01 | Page 4 | About the Death Penalty.

ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY Morris l has lInS paid laid the tho just penalty for his crime and there are nrc several others in and out of the thc penitentiary pen pen- i who ho need under our laws las ays the thc same atten atten- tion hon And yet we do 10 not much in hanging g men r We C w would nhI rather her see their trials sh rt and decisive and then when convicted and condemned to know that th they nr are arc in a safe cell dead to the thew w world where they will win hardly see sea the man who passes their food in through a u. wicket and where they will see sec no DO other man unless it bo boo now and then a clergyman until their time to die i is reach reached cd If that was the law there would be less crime committed because a gre great t man many men would be convicted who now go free and a great many men would be convicted of the crime that carries that flint kind of punishment who arc are now let et off oft with half punishment and as soon as s they fulfill that sentence sentence sentence sen- sen sen sen- tence then the they are turned out wild ild beasts upon the community and more cr crimes are arc committed If th the death penalty was sas changed to imprisonment for life und under l' l the strict rules which govern in some countries where that penalty is in vogue young criminals would no l longer hinger tal fake c an an- antra an extra tra course from the teachings of old criminals For the wor worst t crimes ci mes we WC would favor a sentence which would take the perpetrator of the crime awa away from being an instructor to less hardened criminals for under the thc faults of our criminal system a man convicted of stealing a horse takes his place side b by side with itJi murderers robbers incendiaries t the incendiaries the he whole list of V crimes and crimes and comes conies forth hardened in ill his dispoSition disposition disposition tion feeling that he has lIas been hopelessly disgraced and that henceforth the world shall make him bun a living liying