Show CAPITAL punishment justices Justi Jut tica cs differs from fro views expressed by dr JOURNAL I 1 was much interested interested in an article on capital punishment by dr apperley in your issue of wednesday last while I 1 consider some valuable suggestions are made which are well worth our serious consideration yet my opinion on the subject is quite different in some respects from that of the writer while we wa have not yet i cached the millennium ard our laws gire lire not ideal idea ones in in every particular yet I 1 consider ve v e have long since emerged from the dark A agea aeo eo from the tha safeguards thrown around the accused it is next to impossible for an innocent person to be convicted I 1 imagine I 1 can perceive a marked difference be an execution legally F on a criminal who has shed the blood of an innocent person and the crime for which tha the criminal was executed so I 1 hardly pee the application of one murder not justifying another capi tat punishment may may be revolting to the best beat fj feeling feelings in the human bunian breast but is i it not less lees revolting than the crime the murderer las has committed on an innocent person an and i is is likely to repeat if an opportunity presents presen tb itself every reader can c 6 no doubt recall more inore than one instance in in which several lives ofin of innocent who were rare a credit to the communities in which they lived have been sacrificed because the culprit was not apprehended apprehend ded and convicted sooner when a person takes a human life without provocation and has been amply warned by our laws re respecting pecking murders I 1 can perceive c e ive no great hardship in the operation of the mosaic law whereby hia life is taken in return it appears to lie lia a better manner of dispo disposing siu of this class of criminals cri than oth other er means that have so far been advocated it takes a large sum sain of money earned and paid as taxes by the honest toilers boilers of the community t ti convict con act each murder erand it deerns ee erns a greit greil injustice to theria them that on account 0 his crime clime the theys should bould be abl obliged aged to contribute con tributa to his hia support after his guilt has bas been proven it is one on of the cardinal and moot moet sacred duties of a country to see that its people are protected in their lives from froin the criminals criminal s murders must be punished in sue such a manner that other would be murderers 11 will take warning 0 and not committie commit the same offense ofie nse moral suasion may have a desirable and I 1 happy effect with most people but nothing but the fear of severe pu ii ashment will prevent Tr event some people from committing crime while capital punishment or any other form of punishment binen t does not no t right ig the wrong yet in the opinion of many persons the former atones to a greater or less extent for the crime committed but whether this will be correct or not it certainly frees the community of an undesirable member places the criminal where he cannot repeat his crime usually gives him ample time in which to repent and it frees the community once and forever of the expense of support ing him P dr apperly suggests that the encinal be deprived of bia hi liberty and confined at hard labor the proceeds to be given to the relatives ivea of the murderers victim or to the state while this to many criminals might be a more severe penalty than than death I 1 would most heartily agree with the doctor here providing 0 this measure could be made to operate successfully and the criminal could be reformed or improved and would not endanger the lives of other people anil and that at atthe the sane sanc time there would be no tax on the law abiding ab idinE mamber a of he could thee result be obtained then I 1 would n consider that under unde ordinary stances capital punishment could be abolished but at least till that time arrives arrivee I 1 believe it answers a useful purpose e JUSTICE |