CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
approved by ex-judce. WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN. , United Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a * m o ( . LONDON, March 20 “When a person tabes another s life society should not be burdened with keening him in circumstances better ' than many honest people hie J Therefore* it is only light that wie State should take his life an ia ' done with it,” was the opinion Doi cl HnJ (ex-Judge of the King’s Bench Sfyisfcm) expressed to the Select Committee on Capital Punishment, Ihe execution of innocents is impossible in the fact of the present rntelligent administration of our murdei laws, but m-inv cruiltv persons escape. Lord" Darling agreed that it was unpleasant to trv women for any offence, Che could not, much as lie wished give any reason why they should not be executed equally as men. •At the close of a long jnterroggation. Lord Darling was asked what in hi* opinion was the most severe punishment apart from hanging. He replied, “I should say cross-examination.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 136, 21 March 1930, Page 5
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