FRENCH PENAL CODE
ALTERNATIVE TO' GUILLOTINE. | (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copy right,.) PARIS, Dec. 31. The partial suppression of the deatli penalty lias had a disastrous result on murder statistics, as no alternative to the guillotine has yet been devised. Even hard labour on Devil s Island, which is the second severest imprisonment- in the penal code, seems mile; anti 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 death penalty. Italy recently adopted the system o! lifelong solitary confinement in specially isolated circular cells, and the authorities state that criminals regard this punishment ais worse than death. The question, however, is whether French public opinion will favour a punishment recalling the tortures of the middle ages. r
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 7
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154FRENCH PENAL CODE Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 7
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