ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Sir, —Have the advocates of the abolition of the death penalty for murder been to other parts of the world, places not so highly favoured as we are here in New Zealand with our fine body ot kind policemen and magistrates deal out justice? I think that to abolish the penalty must tend to Ut' creased crime. As for the plea that an innocent person might be hanged, such a possibility is very remote indeed under our cautious English laws. England’s grearness comes through her observance or the teachings of Holy Writ and you can read in Numbers, Chapter 35, abovt murder. —Yours, etc., WHAT NEXT? September 24. 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23446, 29 September 1941, Page 8
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