Show WHAT WILL HIS FATE BE the final fate of gollab rez the murderer of the persian shah has baa not yet beau determined upon that it will be death to la a foregone conclusion but what torture to inflict on the regicide previous to death Is i a matter evidently not easily decided in a country like persia where plain kill ing Is ia common enough lor for small adall often offen se during the early part of the mur dered sovereigns sovereign rejan reign ao an attempt was wa made to out cut his hie life short it failed I 1 and the fanatics natice fa were apprehend edThe treatment they were subjected to was simply appalling slits were out in their bodies and lighted candies inserted after long continued torture they were finally cut to pieces with hatchets amputation of decapitation shooting rending lending limb from limb are common forms of punishment in persia but these methods will probably be considered inadi quate measures measure of justice to one who hat has taken the life of the sovereign it Is common to have the bands of thieves cutoff drunkards sometimes get holes boles bored through their noses and robbers are often walled in and left to perish As these offenses offe nees are among the oom corn lighter ones it to is not to be doubted that ingenuity will be called to the aid of cruelty in the ones case of the regicide the theory prevailing in all barbarous countries that criminality can be successfully oom batted only by excessive cruelty has loot long ago been refuted by experience the supposition is that the would be criminal must be deterred in ints bis purpose by the awful sufferings awaiting him experience teaches however that the constant addition of brutality to the sum total aready dready existing in any given community has a tendency to render the public consel conscience onoe less jess sensitive to the perpetration of brutal crimes the deterrent influence of torture mid and physical suffering is much les lees effect ive than might be supposed on a class already hardened to the sufferings of fellow beings and it is r rendered still lose lees by the falat fact that nearly every criminal entertains hopes of escaping detection and lays his bis plans accordingly str bart t Ju juaice sIce tempered with mercy merejo has been found to be the best beat antidote antido antt doe tb against crime the former althe alma at die the r repression or extermination of that element of society which to is incapable of redemption for virtue thle the latter seeks to rescue that which be good but for the weakness owing to which it has yielded to temptations from within or without ignorant human justice often destroys the j good with the bad supreme mercy separates the two elements with a view to the development of the former to greater perfection |