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Show No Executions In Belgium. J, Death sentences aro novor oxocuted t In Belgium becauso King Leopold promised his mother as sho was dying i that ho would novcr sign his namo to fa a death warrant. Consequently, al- N , though tho statuto prescribes the ox- tromo penalty It Is only carried constructively. con-structively. Tho condomned person Is It rogardod as dead In tho oyes of tho law. In placo of his personal ap- 4 pearanco on tho scaffold tho heads- fl man substitutes a broadsldo bearing his namo and sentence, posts this I whoro It may bo read by tho people, and so loaves It, whllo tho criminal I Is put In prison to stay thero for tho I term of his llfo. |