PRIVATE EXECUTION'S.
To the Editor of the Xkw Zealand llehalo. Sin,—Xow Ihut the extreme penalty of tiie lawhas been exercised upon and Okeroa, it may not be considored out ot plaee to enquire through the medium ol your columns, the re'ison the colonial Legislatuie adduce l'or hanging criminals in almost utter privacy. It is, and ever will be, an admitted fact by legislators that solitary co/ijinuitrnl for life, is lar gieater punishment, than i/iath itself. The object then oi flanging is not so much tho punishment of the Criminal as the example to others. 1 admit that a public execution must be a very harrowing spectacle ; but to hang privately—when I say prit ntr/y 1 mean, at any lati, n.r from publicly—leavus the impression upon the mind, that we are in Ilei Majesty's dominions, but subservient to laws not recognised ill England. I am, ike. " C."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 136, 20 April 1864, Page 4
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