THE DEATH PENALTY.
PROPOSED ABOLITION -IN,; RUSSIA, t ; (lIT .TELEOKArn—PUESS ASSOCIATION—COPYKIGBT.j '.":,■:';■ v;:' ; p-m.);-..:-.- ': : , ;v \:{f: /:,■„••.St. Petersburg, February, 15k; ■v',-A league.to.opposo .capital .punishment -is , being. formed at St. .Petersburg,-including-several councillors of : tho Empire and memtea ■of the Duma'.'-.''. '-.■■' , : - r -."■ ■"•".. ■■;.''. ■■.■;".- .■• .;■•■■' ■"■' ■ ■■ \ ■. ! - v"_ : ■: The .Russian Opposition- press recently pul> of tlie executions anil 'death sentences!-from October 14 to 'November 14 last. The total of the death sentences passed . was: 210,' including 53. Nt Elcaterihoslavi 20 • at Elizabethgrad, 20 at Kieff, and 15 at Warsaw. There were 82 executions, including •Iβ .at Kieff. .The number of death sentences for (the past eleven months is given as 1601, of whioh G63 havo been carried out. / , :.•,■'
In 1907 the number of death sentences passed was 1692, of which,74B were carried out. "* !
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 433, 16 February 1909, Page 5
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125THE DEATH PENALTY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 433, 16 February 1909, Page 5
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