Show capital punishment Is necessary seasonal reamona Reas onal 4 by H B chamberlin chicago crime commission capital punishment is lawful in the present state of society I 1 believe it to be necessary reasonable and just sentimentalists well viell mcanin meaning 0 and but badly misguided are partly responsible for the ri rising sin g murder rate in the united states because they are arc giving most of their attention to the cou consideration ol of the murderer rather than alinn to his victim another reason wh why y murders are becoming more nuni numerous erous is that execution is not dot inflicted in all cases of deliberate murder let me illustrate illinois has a statute providing capital punishment for murder tb the same statute also provides that tle the sentence ma may y be from fourteen years to life imprisonment in 1921 there were murders murders in cook county during tile the same period defendants were arraigned on murder charges 0 there were fifty flye five convictions forty six were sentenced to tile the penitentiary and to the reformatory and only six sis were sentenced to bang in other words less than 3 per cent of the murderers convicted in cook county last year suffered erad capital punishment |