DEATH PENALTY
METHODIST SYNOD’S OPPOSITION (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 30. The reintroduction of capital punishment would be retrograde, said the Rev. J. D. Grocott on behalf of the public questions committee at the Methodist Synod to-day. Certainty of detection and prosecution of offenders were greater deterrents than severe punishments, said th# committee’s statement. The statement will be presented to the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) for consideration. The statement said that in times of emergency the State might be compelled to take life to preserve order, but it was not for human justice to arrogate to itself when a human life should be unfit to live. Capital punishment denied the possibility of reform and failed to recognise the responsibility of society in creating conditions of living in which crime was partially a result of circumstance.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26205, 31 August 1950, Page 8
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