CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
REMARKABLE DANISH BILL.
(UNIfED PP.ES3 ASSOCIATION.—COVIBIGDT.)
(HJBUSHri) IN Till TIUtR.)
. COPENHAGEN, Bth February. The Socialist Government has introduced remarkable provisions in its new 'Amendment'to. the Criminal Code Bill. It increases the penalties for fraud, illicit speculation, drunkenness, offences against women, children, and animals, abolishes capita! punishment., and reduces penalties for crimes against the State, while matrimonial infidelity, unnatural offences, and illegal operations cease to be criminal offence.'. The Bill provides, in special circumstances, two exemptions from penalties, if a person kills another, suffering from imnnnblc' ilness at flic sufferer's request, ov niils and hbeta suicide under tiinjUu' citcuuiitances.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 34, 10 February 1925, Page 5
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101CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 34, 10 February 1925, Page 5
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