THE GUILLOTINE
SUPPRESSION OF DEATH PEHALTY FRANCE’S EXPERIENCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, December 31. Partial suppression of the death penalty has Lad a . disastrous result on murder statistics, as mo alternative to the guillotine has yet been devised. Even hard labour on Devil’s Island, vvhjph is one of the most severe punishments in the penal code, seems mild in comparison with beheading, especially as some convicts quickly escape to a foreign country, whence extraditions are impossible. The Prison Council of France is now considering the question of embodying solitary confinement for life in the penal code for murderers who escape the death penalty. Italy recently adopted the system of lifelong solitary confinement in special isolated circular cells The authorities state that criminals regard this punishment as worse than death. The question, however, is whether French public opinion will favour the punishment, which recalls the tortures of the middle ages.
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Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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149THE GUILLOTINE Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9
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