Deterrent Sentences
Sir, —The Rev. G. L. Sweet concludes his article asking whether an ethical society wants its judiciary to check crime with sentences aimed at society in general. In secondary schools coloured slides of what happens in lung cancers and venereal diseases are shown at lectures. They can intimidate, arouse further curiosity, frighten, or just amuse, and still have no de terrent value. But they are warnings for all to see. The judiciary has a duty to display warnings to a somewhat unethical society. For the benefit of the ethics of us and the prisoner, he should receive with his sentence a homily on why he is being used as a “guinea-pig.” Governor Agnew, a Vice-Presi-dential nominee, draws atten-
tion to anarchy and clvi) rights coming to mean the same thing. With how much looting of ethics can our society be indulgent before it yells out for more deterrent sentences? What will be “in terred with its bones?”Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. August 14, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31760, 17 August 1968, Page 12
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