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Show DEATH PENALTY MUST STAND Br JUDGE M. A. KAVANAGH, Cook County ail.) Superior Court. y H The first duty of a state is to protect the lives of its citizens just as the first duty of a nation is to protect its own life. An individual may take a life under the law if his own is in danger. Nations have taken lives throughout history to save their own. Why should not the state take lives to protect those it governs? Capital punishment is a terrible thing but it is a deterrent. - Organizations that object to capital punishment compare states that have it and those that do not, but they compare these states unfairly, -v They do not compare Kansas, which has not this form of punishment, with Nebraska, which has. There are only half as many homicides in Nebraska as in Kansas-. New Hampshire and Vermont have capital punishment pun-ishment and Maine does not. Yet there are twice as many homicides in Maine as in either of the other two. The average criminal receives better treatment in prison than he does when he is free. He has a doctor to treat his 013, concerts, motion pictures and radios. The only thing he lacks is the chance to practice his vices, under our system of punishment. The administration of criminal law calls for certain, speedy and appropriate punishment. |