Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-02-01 | Page 3 | Death Penaty Battle Opened

DEATH EATH PEN A TY BATTLE OPENED Capital Punishment De- De De Declared dared Failure Claim Rich Go Free NEW EW YORK Feb By J-By 1 By The Associated Press Press Capital pun pun- pun Is if a failure as a crime deterrent and nd Is contrary to religion Ion ion ethics and logic speakers sal said Sunday night at It a n meeting tt t theatre which opened a wide wide state campaign against the death penalty by the tho League for forthe forthe the Abolition of o Capital Punish Punish- Punishment ment ment SingIng Warden arden Ie Lewis Letsis ls E B Lawes Lawt ot of Sing Sing 1 Ing prison chairman oC ot the league said that only one out of 85 homicides In this his hla country Is given tho the death punishment and andt t that ha there Is III never a man ot or In- In In Influence fluence or wealth who come comes to the death house Clarence Darrow Barrow Chicago allor- allor attorney ne ney asserted that capital punish punish- punishment ment does docs not deter criminals and that should 1 pr prevent vent crime by education rather than punish punish- punishment ment nent ment Our schools leave lea the ordinary children that Is the class from whIch the criminals spring without the necessary training to make t a living Thus Ill equipped he aid they turn to crime Following Mr Darrow Dudley Field Malone New York attorney said he believed that It if it Is wrong for the Individual to tak take soother another Individuals Individual's life lite then it Is just us as wrong for tor the state as nn an agency of ot collective Individuals to take life lite II Mrs Kathleen Norris author ho said she spoke on on on behalf ot of he be women of the country also spoke poke In opposition to C capital pun pun- punIshment punishments Following the meeting Mr tr Dar Bar Darrow Barrow Darrow row Warden Lawes Laes and other ot- ot of officers leers of the league left for Wash Wash- Washington ington to attend a II hearing be before Core the sub judiciary committee ot of the house on two bills to abolish capital punishment In the District ot of Columbia