Show THE D DEATH PENALTY during the last five years yeara there tharo have been 43 homicides in the united states an average of per yr year in the same time there have been legal L L x and 1118 lynch ings the fig ures are interesting anil and isuga I 1 hey show to begin begron with that murder ito in a more frequent fie quent crime than la Is generally federally understood and that it to increasing instead of in the tha laut last year 10 COO persons persona were billee or it at the rate irate of per month wh leas in 1860 1890 the number was waa only 42 0 or lew less than half an aa many as aa in 1886 1806 it alij 1 not I 1 to 0 be suppo supposed ned that the th people are now t wice twice as a bloodthirsty to aa they were live fly years yeara ago or that provocations pro vocations of 0 our der have hav been multiplied to that extent 11 here must be some botne othor beloon for or this startling proof of the th growth of the th worst crime tn in the calendar it in IH to be found unquestionably in the tha which tell how the murderers murd erem have been dealt with only 1841 of them in all have paid the death p penalty and only ot of these the seone one la in sixty of the whole number have boen been thus punished in a regular way and according to the form forier of law there thera have hav been moie lynah ings than legal deou alons tn in each one of those these fly live years year and the fact Is in one of t evident it will not do to that the courts have done their duty when aben so ao amany laay murderers have been allowed to ft capa aps and to this dereliction the lynah ings are largely due but there abere is i another point in the matter that hat to la of till importance us as LU explanation of f this lamentable state of things there Is 13 a decided and growing public sonvi nu mont against the death penalty lad and it 11 influences t the he action of courts and juries in murder trials oftener etener than thai anything else thus thua in many ML ea verdict of acquittal are rendered render for no other reason than a unwillingness to condemn bonnin oon nin a follow fellow an to death the same juries would woal readily rl lly vote for conviction if so aam r other form of punishment ouia could bs b s ts filleted such an aa imprisonment for or lift life with prohibition of f pardon except upon upa future proof of f innocence or r for some other logal local log al and cause aube it to la morbid to pooh oh pooh this feeling as an a prejudice mere morbid prejudice for it Is in enter anter bained by some of the best baat citizens who have no sympathy tor for as ail such budi but who are opposed to capital punishment under unar any they hold that the gallows Is a relle all of and that the th taking of t human life in the navio of t the th law to inconsistent with modern we may think what we ale plea ape about mush buh a sentiment but it exists vry every where and tta its strength la Is wt felt as ff its as a murder no nr la Is tried trie the in IF would it not be better for society and worse fr for the criminals it if juries were permitted to return vr vor diet and to enri viet without the no of the death penalty st bt loun loul 11 inbe neme erat |