Show HANGING OF MRS ROGERS A great protest has been mal against the execution of mrs mary rogers in vermont the women of the country appealed to governor bell iii vain for that official was unmoved by their entreaties the young woman Is a degenerate was married at 16 but at no tinus respected the marriage obligation at 19 she became a murderer planning the crime against her husband in a moat premeditated manner but how ever debased she may be the question lo 10 bo answered Is does her execl alon tend to the worlds betterment or t the security of life there are many writers on criminology opposed to capital punishment they reason that the taking of life by legal process does not act on the minds of those ot murderous instincts as a deterrent but instead often brutalizes the exe cautioners cution ers the witnesses of the execution and others the higher woman is held in the es ti matlon of mankind just that much greater will the women be responsive 10 that higher conception of their in life A woman of the low nature of sirs rogers should b committed to some institution for life she should ha pre vented from bringing into tha world a child that might be predisposed to hor habits she should be held apart from the world but wo would not condemn her to a life of mental or bodily torture or execute her yet we would so ostracise ostra cise her that her influence for bad could not send one evil thought on a mission of soul destruction AS civilization advances th ereis a less inclination exhibited to subject the criminal to torture or to condemn the murderer to death the time will come when capital punishment will be a thing of the past |