Show A CRIME WORTHY OF DL DEATH ATH A nell BILI has been introduced into the indiana legislature providing for the fhe punishment by death of persons convicted of outraging women we consider this a righteous ure the popular verdict is that a man guilty of euch buch an otense ought to be killed hilled when a husband fa ther brother or other near relative rela reia tive tivo takes the law into hta his own hands and vindicates vindicates his hla honor by slaying the perpetrator of a crime which naturally arouse arouses 8 the most intense feeling of resent resentment men it la Is seldom especially in thib this country that a jury can bo be icaran meled who will convict him of murder this Is because the public sentiment la Is in favor of a penalty upon the villain greater than that which the ahe law provides and yet unda under the codes which prevail the man who under such circumstances is allowed to go froe free is the greater criminal of the two the scoundrel who committed the outrage could under the laws be at the most committed to prison tor for a term of years while the avenger being guilty of shedding human blood liable to the extreme penalty thus the laws are at fault and should be remodeled if the brute who outrages a woman Is worthy of death tile tiie law should make the punishment capital it tile thie offense offence is not properly punishable by death then the man who takes upon himself the responsibility of Indic inflicting ting such punishment is gall guilty ty of murder and ought not to go scot acot free in a civilized country private vengeance should not be allowed nor be necessary no individual should ba required to inflict a penalty upon the invader luvader of human rights orthe violator of any auy law the power that makes the law should provide means for its and vindication di every mans honor and every womans comans virtue should be protected by the law it is wrong to 10 require any private person to perform a duty which belongs to some public functionary the officers of the law should inflict the penal ties of the law and yet if a wife be outraged society expects the husband to inflict summary vengeance on the villain who committed the dastardly deed the father to vindicate the honor of his daughter the brother to thus defend hig his sister stater thib thia is all arong the law should matke makke the penalty adequate to the crime and provide the means and the officer for its droner proper enforcement when a smites unto death the tha betrayer of his family peace he does it in the spirit of revenge but bat when the law takes its course the punishment is of a different nature it is for the vindication of j justice us tice and the protection of society the latter should be sustained the former should be discountenanced when there are proper penal ties for crime and they are aro justly and fairly enforced there remains no encute for private vengeance and he who then indulges in it ought to buffer suffer the punishment in such case provided the law should put it out of the need of the individual to retaliate and then if he be breaks the law he should be as certainly punished as the transgressor upon whom he presumed to take vengeance if the indiana bill becomes a law and is enforced it will make sure of one thing the wretch who outrages a woman will never commit a second otence after he is convicted this is how it should be virtue la popularly supposed to be dearer than life the practice ought to oom comport com port pott with trie the theory if then he who takes life u unlawfully uia nia w is worthy of death should not he who loel forcibly bly takes that which is more than life also suffer the he extreme penalty we think lo 10 and would have the law everywhere in accordance with that principle tu in all parts of the civilized world crimes against homana honor are treated toot too lightly seduction is usually condoned with cash money covers a multitude of sexual gins sins A civil suit for damages is the legal remedy for a husband or father whose home has been invaded by a human wolf wolli that to be killed in the most ignominious manner the system Is ia all wrong and in the interest of the libertine wo we would throw the door of matrimony wide open and make marriage eagy basy and possible isible to sll ali and then we woula impose heavy penalties upon the intruder into the sacred temple of comans womans virtue and would have the scoundrel who forc forcibly loly outrages any woman maid wife or widow die the death of a dog we ve hope tho the indiana bill will become a law and a precedent for all other portions of the union |