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FLOGGING OF PRISONERS

The following resolution was passed unanimously, .s/tat .» largely "aHefaded meeting. of tie Wellington branch q| th* ,Social Democratic Party: "Thti, meeting expresses *£sterror at *^ c r£M , in+r|ductioTqL..of flpgfinfe in New Zealand !»i3 , oTe«ls: aga&wt the $&^a-^im&trrß&~'' I ** ] cure brutality with, brutality, or to end outrage with, further outrage, IS questions His Honour's statement that) garotting was stopped or lessened* by the lash, and desires to poini out tiiat* «yen if the assertion was accurate, there is no comparison betvreea crimes o$ violenoe and sexual orim«s. This x&set* ing considers tliai> if the sentencing! judge had to carry out the sentence and discharge the horrible and degrad* ing task of flogging a fellow Irumaa being instead of thrusting it upon ecme. unfortunate inderlLng in the Prlsoa; Department whos© living depends Oa hi* dehumaneng himself, the country would have been, spared the humiliatSea oS recording euch a lapse from humaii% tariaa principles and a reversion, to af barbaric torture. It asks all human* men and women to unite in an effort to resist any further, dntroductioil o? •cruelty into tie treatnWnt of criminals, and to press for the .appointment fe» *fen* Judicial Bench of men well gjtWlSidedl in pathology and criminology, a* *toU as in law."

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