CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
INQUIRY BY COMMITTEE VALUE AS A DETERRENT LONDON, 191 li May. Contrasting views of capital punishment were placed before the Select Committee by the. former Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, who said in his evidence that if it were shown to bo necessary to take murderers' lives to prevent "murderers taking innocent persons' lives it seemed the legitimate and moral tiling to do. But the system of justice, lie said, ought not to be based in the principle of "tit for tat." The dcatli penalty was justifiable only as a deterrent. Viscount Brentford, also a former Home Secretary, pointed out that the death penalty,was the most dreaded of ill punishments and therefore it ivas the greatest deterrent'.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 13
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