Show I Favors ors a Abolishing Capital Punishment t. t I J note that California is en endeavoring n ring g to capital fal punishment nt It Itis It is high time that all the thc states did likewise The infliction of the death pen alty is a n huge mistake Furthermore it is a crime ng a against civilization itself So I long as the state sets the ex ex- exale example a ample ale plc of oJ killing killing- its enemies men will occasional occasionally kill theirs Murder never r yet c cured murder der To take human life is morally ly wrong That which is is morall morally wrong wrong- cannot be made legally leg right An AnJe Je eye eeor e e for or an au eye a n tooth for a tooth and a li life for a life is is the creed reed of barba barbarism not not of C When the state k kills ls a man aman man it admits that tha it cannot ta take e care of him It is the admission of or ora ofa a i small a weak heart Meno Men Ien who com commit murder are Pare unbalanced weak diseased i eased I sick Can the state discharge its ts duty tf to these n mete men only on 13 by hy means of the gallows allows an and the el electric chair Statistics cs offer co conclusive d sive ro f that t the th death malt n ti has hns las hn had i no o l lessening effect s uP J upon up- up i on the crim crime of murder anywhere any any- where at any time Why then should hould society continue t to stain Its ts hands with th the 1 blood blood of these hese unfortunates Lou Long 1 long ago aco there carne came the y command from the distant shores of Galilee J Thou not kill Certainly it is tt time tillie that t it at an nn alleged Christian nation heed the he voice of f the Great Teacher and abolish this relic of savagery savagery ery the ery the killing of men by bv the state MORTON AL ALEXANDER XA pER |