GERMANY’S LAWS
MORE DRASTIC PUNISHMENTS LONDON, 27th August. The German Penal System Reform Commission recommends that capital punishment be retained. At the same time it draws attention, says the Berlin correspondent of “The Times,” to the possibility of allowing some condemned persons to poison or shoot themselves. ’lbis, it is stated, would cany out the principle of granting such a person’s last wish.
Judges, the commission says, should be empowered to order drastic punishment, with solitary confinement in dark cells equipped with beds with mattresses, thus enabling the period of imprisonment to be curtailed. Tlie commission recommends the sanctioning of duelling as a worthy form of settling disputes, provided that provocation is not frivolous and duelling rules are observed.
Beheading heads the list of punishments in the new penal code. Sentences to penal servitude will be accompanied by loss of civil rights and confinement of the convicted apart from other prisoners for specially severe treatment.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 6
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