IN RUSSIAN PRISONS.
THE DEATH SENTENCE. Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, yesterday. Pri-nee Ktopotkin states the Russian prisons are officially capable of holding 90,000 people. They now "hold 181,000. ' ' . The Duma rejected a Bill, abolishing capital punishment on the ground that Courts-martial can order executions outside the Duma's competence.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 5 June 1909, Page 3
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51IN RUSSIAN PRISONS. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 5 June 1909, Page 3
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