| Show Justia Justic fand cand mercy henry C beattie Be attic jr a wife murderer whose sen atonal trial last ummer attracted wide spread attention vent to his deitel friday in the electric hair chair at the virginia state the eNi evidence dence against beattie N as entirely circumstantial iet ct it vas absolute ile he had plenty of monc moncy yand I 1 ind all eliat balth could do legitimately to save sac him wis done ile c hit h ail excellent counsel i fai fair r p and I 1 impartial trial before a jury ill eliat at ws w I 1 free from prejudice and in a court presided over ij a judge who iho was eminently fair his case was vis review revie ea eil carefully by the supreme court of his state and the nt of the lower court an appeal wb wab made to the gocr noi ind after Zea j careful reful ind and impartial investigation vesti gation the declined to interfere with the coures of the law with the last hope gone beattie just his death conic conferee qed to tile the awful deed thus making certain the fact that absolute only justice na was as meted mated out llie he ws a bruc ru coine ome one filled with harrowing details leattie by his confusion shows th tint it ile he i as norse than 1 I 1 guidi lie was a fiend v ho richly deber descried deb cried cd the punishment that was meted out to him A satisfactory thing about the case was the splendid example that the courts of virginia ma de of the legal alie case the defend ant was eiven given everyl every 3 constitutional guarantee there was no unseemly haste the case wa and reviewed in a manner that gave the ant every benefit to which hews en titled under the law yet there was no acla delay y justice was as Q as was consistent with due deliberation beattie murdered murd cred his hig wife on july and edthe penalty with his big life on no 24 1911 in utah there has beena acen J much di casion as to what shall be done kith its murderers unquestionably the sensitive mind reolas at the thought of in execution a begil murder as it lias has been bermed justice should be tempered with mere but the fact rem uns ellit there has been an alarming nl arming iacre ue in the murders in the state a condition it is held by many that th tt is a direct result of the leniency chown to murderers in ili this state the is B iny other crim inal in al is PrIti entitled tied to every safeguard that the lawmakers have thrown shout him he is entitled to every protection that the constitution accords him nevertheless by his crime he merits the punishment which the law pre bilics cs if mercy is to be shown let society be the beneficiary of that merry mercy if mercy to the murderer meana mean a cruelty to the rest of society which must suffer because other criminals believe they may be ba able to escape punishment as a result of the tendency tenc lenc y to t 0 he lenient then let justie jua tiie be s I 1 ft a and n d unsparing so long as the laws of the state prescribe the execution of murderers the law should be rigidly enforcer enforced tho the beattie case should prove an excellent example to follow |
