FRENCH PENAL CODE
PARTIAL SUPPRESSION OF DEATH PENALTY
DISASTROUS RESULT ON MURDER STATISTICS
(United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
Paris, December 31. The partial suppression of the death penalty had a disastrous result on the murder statistics. As no alternative to the guillotine has been devised yet, even hard labour on Devil’s Island, which is the second severest punishment in the penal code, seems mild, almost like a pardon in comparison, with beheading, especially as some convicts quickly escape to a foreign country, whence extradition is impossible. The prison council of France is now considering embodying solitary confinement for life in the'penal code for murderers escaping the leath penalty. Italy recently adopted a system of life-long solitary confinement in special isolated circular cells. T.’ authorities state that criminals regard this punishment as worse than death. The question, however, is whether French public opinion will favour punishment recalling the tortures of the middle ages.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 13
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