Capital Punishment

Press, Volume C, Issue 29524, 27 May 1961, Page 3

Capital Punishment

| Sir.—Congratulations to you j for today's temperate ediItorial on the problem of political hanging. To help the National Party caucus define degrees of murder I offer a further quotation from Mr Gerald Gardiner, Q.C., which appeared in a recent article of his criticising the English Homicide Act: “(1) If a man kills his wife with the nearest weapon to hand, and if this is a gun, he commits capital murder, but if the nearest weapon to hand is a hatchet, it is non-capital murder. (2) If a man rapes a girl, strangles her. and takes her handbag, this is in practice capital murder: if he does not take the handbag it is not.”—Yours, etc T A.' May 24. 1961.

Sir.—How many people realise that the difficulty of the people, and nations, is between the infinite mind, and its opposite, the finite mind? Do we use the infinite mind for our own purpose? Or do we seek to use it. on the levels of spiritual evolution’ The finite mind is mancreated. and is below the levels of the infinite. The general position at this period is man-created. Science generally has superimposed itself above the moral nature of man. and has become his master. Failing to understand these things, he fails to find a remedy for them. Capital punishment does not remove the mental cause, which remains with us. The answer to the problem lies in spiritual psychology.—Yours etc., SILVER NIB. May 24. 1961.