| Show TRIAL ul BY JURY the death penalty for murder 14 Y waa abolished in ID michigan some gome time ago i and imprisonment for life substituted i some six aix years past a man was wap fully folly i convicted of that crime suck and the pun ashment had proceeded a few weeks ago when the prisoner was liberated information of a character had been brought to the i baird of par pardons cardoos doos bowing blowing that the man was waa not guilty of what the jury convicted him of hereda la is a text texa for aboss who favor the obliteration of capital punishment and their kalhe ame it if not legion la Is at least quite voluminous it if th that aa kind of law lair bad been in existence when the man was convicted he would have been dead and buried at least five years yean by this ihla time and the chances are that those blee who fished out the exculpatory evidence in his bis behalf would abt then iboa have gone gode to trouble thus he would have undergone under Rone the terrible terr ibl ordeal of sin an V beath ati 4 and the ignominy would have to tl name so long ai a it was remembered ime anat list he to still alive and froest freed go or otome with no stain upon his io far as the offense of I 1 which he be was waa convicted and had bad undergone jars of expiation for is concerned he result remit of the abolishment reed to afe U riot not merely an argument for the be bf the clues of people spoken of rh of a commentary upon preval lingk legal methods or civil 1 countries as well when alfred great established the system of eing motive mets lives live liberties and for s tu in the hands bands of A bozen of their inflows he be did well for his bia day and his bis intent was undoubtedly ilant t of a philanthropic progressive i J 31 but that be wiser or owen len as wisely as he be know knew ili 16 an abber question of course he be realized tab do that his bis work ab wm 11 1 1 eay experiment exper experimental iMen tal and that I 1 ito U sod and inequalities would alfr regulated mad aad adjusted utter after being in the cruet crucible ble of experience t be system except in utan utah alone 6 bileve remains exactly an aa be con bared A to put it in operation in this tb the only difference Is ia as aa to the L blanter and the reduced panels seem oft to give quite as aa good satisfaction as the kind if not a little more wi gives give rise nee to ther question as aa to f whither whether or not a still greater reduction goold be in the light of atte AdJo michigan bigan ome case which is far from y being so an isolate ted J one we are tempted to believe abat a jury of three cerione pe rione edu vacated daca dated ted generally as well as in 1 lav jaw who hc are known to be upright uv and steadfast humane without beng weaks weak and arm rm without being Aub borD would be more likely to give alsa di stalls or of a div n case the carem oon consideration which the na tore of the suta ot ct ue mandt and ad render a judgment in accordance cor dance with its merits merile and der demerits nerus JUme alured by the lauts and contro controlled by tile the law than would twelve men or ally other number taken at random am the body ot of the public certain itis that of some kind is a palpable need when a persons liberty can awry away for year his eife pre caved arved only by a recent change in th tbt st tat aiutes utes aud and all the while he be entire ly guiltless of the charge upon which the punishment was based babied |
