| Show Che Cie Question of Capital punishment pun r 1 J ent for or Women omen Difficulties cult es In the Way may of Its I an tilt interval ol ot e several years of corn com comparative silence upon r r tho the matter tho discus aloe alon over capital pun punishment of for women l pro ro ru aid con has re 10 antly bail bou 11 t opened reopened with nil all Us old ol mo vigor The Iho which brought ow about a u revival nl of ot the lima subject tree the and condemnation l w to ilc of or two lava A Hog HOj ors PIS of 01 f Vr Vermont mont unit Kato Kate Edwards ol ot MUM for limo HID murder of ot their Him and the subsequent tin live II Inuit rt of ot ll a and sym Wl oman amen ot of wealth and leisure to woth lb m nt from tram the Iho gallows in III with both CURlS cases the tho crimes wore and nU lie tho details revolting In both 1 beta sta ta 3 the bile was the lie has haft hasto tit et o n to tn lJ th of ot the tho thel l Women tho the l Oral with the tha IIi most and unpardonable fault fun It There Tiler w I nothing In the limo B in hl tory story of the tho crimes to tern tent t far r th n moil t exacting Judgment cx ex r cl t 1 Hi hu exception e In III this tn case o Is III Iii fact that tint 14 Itt are 11 Is no doubt whatever that thal tho the thoM or o ho tho death penalty u upon a n I is abhorrent M t to ta o civilized man manh In iii general It Is also n a fact that thal the Ise tooling ot f i moral ob which as I nt is II 11 on very every such execution In ln men than Sn In wo 1 lor thero III H tho nd lid ii hat 0 I to the tho e consummate c This teat I J n of ry hUH hue been violated n n w ils marked during durinA nO r j the ilme ii of ot Governor of 01 lit al the pie lime Into of the tho he execution J lire Irs to 10 Place tho the tint woman lager th tit penalty ot of el i had ben been deviled by hy the tho thoo of Now New York from ian o motives In tho limo r I 0 r i a d f fr N 4 I rl 1 r v y l 11 l au 0 r h hl l yr 1 Y I Y 4 47 t i s 7 X Xv v tA r p ii 1 1 a fr I i I It I t a aa av I lor I f r v a 1 P v Sit A Z 1 a r 2 5 z I vA JI MRS MARY that was made iliadI to th miser ible woman from thu the killing current cm tent nt It U wua was urged ruttier but hut most t tlell lell I that lint It was twos both hoth hot it unmanly and undignified ll to la condemn a n woman to n u death tho the merits ot of which had not yet et been icen demonstrated by hy men In 1687 Mrs Druso 1 was wall executed at N V Y for Cor the brutal murder of ot her hEIr Her lieI accomplice lI was us 1111 her daughter Mary who saved herself by iy h pleading guilty to 10 murder III In the tho second degree c Sho Iho is lOW nerving serving u life lito sentence at 01 o l MRS KATE EDWARDS the Iho Onondaga penitentiary In III Syracuse Pap or I the tho execution tc II of at Mrs Druse l the tho country ram rang with proteins protects CHI r Ing th the of or the tho law Into Smile effect David II B Hill 1111 then governor of tit New Now York state wits wun fairly bombarded with nIth petitions tor for u a i Ho Ito wan ts an tiow liOW ever unit like Governor Theodore many gully mUll years ear later laler In III the tho ease casa of Mrs Mix Ir took tho the ground thAt HII at for far mercy mint must be based b on 1111 something mute substantial lull titan than the plea piNe of ot sex Tho execution of at Mrs Mra Druso Druse and the suddenness with which tho the newspapers dropped a subject which for tor months hail had occupied a n prominent place In Inn their columns led del to the lie th assumption n that the new lIew campaign against tho ex execution of or women laid had been abandoned That this w wan as not so however w ng made mado manifest lIt when It was wai learned that during the same sumo year S car ClI II a 1 numb timer r of ot permanent organization looking to 10 toI that m 1 it end had I hien t n formed The rho en case CAlle He at ot Mrs Mr Ilace brought about sonde activity ity by among these thel organisations but her hr herra ra rase e haul had never been nn ay II nationally ills din cussed 1 as na that of ot Mm Mrs Druse J rn l anti the thu activity was lII naturally moro more nearly lo lu local inen cal en I With reference to Mr Mrs Rogers lingers and I Mrs l l und and thu the efforts III In their behalf there has b hell been n that disadvantage tage age In III the case CORO of ot hits tha former nt at least that lust until no one ole that the extreme penult penalty would s be 1 Indicted Hut hint when the Iho refused to II puss p c II bill to in II abolish ash capital I 1 slant mont and thereafter deteNt defeat defeated cd ed n measure lIre looking to the commutation tion Ion of ot th the sentence or ot Mrs to 10 toone toone one of life lite Imprisonment the tha advocates advocate of ot the it of the tho death pen penalty penally ally alty nit for wom women n realised list they hall had very cry little time lime In which to work Pe ls Petitions lerl at once oncil sent lent In III blank hl to the organizations organisations In Ira various l I ail Ions of the country con t trY personal ap eI appeals I peals peala were Wert made to the th governors of at and Vermont and Ad Addresses addresses d dresses to the people or ot th the United HiLlel were sent out through the tho press prell associations Tor lur tome sonic reason rel thus the case Cille of ot the time Hog Hogem em ere uman In III Vermont hag Ims excited more mare sympathy mud attracted more at attention attention attention than luau thud that of ot the tho ho Edwards E wo though It Is la difficult to thud In III el ei either i tier ther n II single extenuating circumstance The governor of ot Vermont has hAft no to au su authority I thorny to pardon u n prisoner oner convicted of ot a 11 capitol capital crime erline but he rosy may ml grunt grant I II Itc I 1 f t l tc tt J 1 i I I reprieves no so that III In the tho case Clue of an al ex executive r e who might admit disapprove ot of an tin ux 11 1 r It would be he a simple matter miller to lu tod lod h d delay ay It until the and ond of ot hi ils hili term twin l ll Michigan wan the state to tho the death deRth penalty It wits WAH as 11 long Ilg r f r as 1114 1847 aril rule he seems Meter never to haVI V had cause to regret U It H her lIer r statistics make an excellent co 1161 1 I live tia s showing In n 1852 th the little tale state of ut Island followed 1 N ox i ample mid and a II year soar later Wisconsin WI b be 1 tam cum thus the third of ut a tL tin 1110 of ot slates which legal I KI It 11 was 10 1 gnat l year afterward there NM elli H any uny iu to Iv the Ibe lIt list In lit Inthe the latter p it pt pf if Wl 1674 lawn Iowa cleared her statute book of al the Institution still and four Tour 1 years ar 1111 from rota that time began the Ih i experiment After a II trial period cov eov covering e ering three thre years Iowa became con convinced Y V k vinced that crime w xe an 11 in the Increase j tp l lanti anti and 1 resti i d the this major moiler Cull Call r also allu mode made an all unsuccessful ex experiment C Vii s In Kansas tho signature ot of C the governor Is le necessary nc uly before etore a sin n u of ot CR ca lit t may ma ins Y b 1 ie carried out veil the itale ut lit NewYork NewYork New NewYork York with IU its n population II the terrible I once mice tried to do without corrective but hut It was wu found to be Im Iro Impracticable i i practicable The total Lola I number of ot le legal 1 j gal Ral executions execution In hl the United I 1904 1604 VMS WI 06 Ot Of these thew the II were for murder In n many of ot the th aisles 1 i ithe the presiding Judge In III empowered to 10 I Im change e the supreme penalty to ta life lite d Im m I I and 1 In to some of or them bent th till the trial Jury I le given Riven the same aeme authority I r It Is III IIvo of at the tend lend tendency m i ency etoy 1110 to abandon legal death that 80 eo f few tew w conviction are IHO secured In the Untied United Thus The average avenge number or of mur murder Ins der for the this lust last few yem 1111 In ht the tho Un Union UnIon 1 V p ion ha line been ben about 1600 The lie everse number of ot execution has bt been n rather 1 i t less les than lift It 11 lit is an actual fact that Hint I Ithe th the number of ot In some years i ihas ha has exceeded th the legal execution I AUGUSTUS U Ii I i t 1 1 v r i ic c l I f 1 i |
