Show SPEEDY JUSTICE ON LAST saturday the herald of this city published an editorial under the c caption of speedy justice in which an allusion was made to a depraved woman of london who was arrested for murdering infants on march 9 indic indicted tea may 21 and ana hanged banged june 10 the herald says gay that was speedy justice as justice should be 21 the herald then goes on to criticism criticise critic ise the enforcement of the criminal laws in the united states and favors the sd adoption option of the speedy justice of england its readers we are then treated to an illustration by way of local reference in the following lanm in an the state prison there are at time two condemned murder ers rs one has been there almost a jear the other a year and a half hey have been tried convicted and sentenced enten ced to death but the sentences have not been executed upon them the cause is delay through appeals appeal A condemned man min should hare his right of appeal but too many appeals are allowed and allowed because judges the backbone to deny them when there is i no really good cause for allowing ahswing them the result of the laws jaws delay in this country is the frequent miscarriage of justice and the increase of lawlessness and edme crime we will wager a good cigar that the writer of the Her heralds aldi editorial is an Eng englishman hahman and he like all persons of foreign birth have a lingering admiration for the laud land of their childhood and in drawing comparisons between the united and their native land lana they look upon any defect in our laws with a distorted vision and remember nothing but the virtues of the land where they first saw the light it may be true that in the old countries of europe they have more speedy justice thau than we do here hut but there is one thing sure the speedy justice spoken of does not eem to have a very salutary influence on many of those who emigrate to this country as the records show that there is a greater percent of crime committed by foreign born bora persons than by the native born citizens of this country we lave hive always understood the object of punishment was for the purpose of suppressing crime and if after centuries of speedy justice as recommended recommend eil by our they produce no better results than thus far have been seen would it not be as well to give deliberate justice a trial speedy justice as cited by the herald flavors more of it mob law than of judicial determination but the writer in the herald seems to have a very limited knowledge of the law of hib hia own state and country judging by his criticism of the judges he says dayss a but too many appeals are allowed and allowed because judges ha the backbone to deny them does he not know that judges have no discretion scarcely in appeals in criminal cases the law itself gives the right of appeal and points out the mode of pa perfects deot ing the sam same the constitution na r on of the state of utah provider provida ut the accused shall have the right to ta appeal in au all cases afe tw would buld aery take a pretty wg strong backbone for a judge in m tins enlightened eneda age geto to refuse an appeal and violate the and d mg hia oath this may be thi the practice ce in so Ru england glandt buts but thank G godit is not 90 40 in these IB trouble able with tha is he has smelled blood AO hue have some ofis for good the example will have upon the public and yet we question whether he would take any pleasure in witnessing a public execution or permit a child of his to be a spectator yet if the example is good of speedy justi justice rz 11 as administered to annie dyer the case referred to then all the children and young people should be made spectators we believe that capital punishment is not beneficial to society that it is revolting and barbarous that it is a shock to every person in the community except those persons devoid of sensibility and who have a brutal and savage nature and we hope the day will soon appear when it shall be abolished in the united states and in the meantime let there be no undue haste in rushing any man or woman into eternity simply to cater to the impatience of that revengeful spirit which would make judges with a spinal column so obstinate sti nate that they would become violators of the law and inhuman monsters under the plea of speedy justice the law may be b slow but if it is certain it is in sufficient the law of progression is slow the form formation hiOn of worlds and the building up of society is a slow process the earthquake the thunderbolt and the cyclone are rapid rapi d speedy justice but they are am destructive of all human inte interests the wrath of god is slow but the passion of man w is sipe edv ia in its couer course |