CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
VIEWS OF FORMER JUDGE.
LORD DARLING'S WITTICISM
LONDON. March 20,
"When a person takes the life of another, society should not be burdened with keeping him in circumstances better than those in which many honest people live. Therefore, it is only right that the State should take his life and have done with it."
This was the opinion that Lord Darling, a former Judge of the King s Bench Division, expressed to the Select Committee on Capital Punishment.
"The execution of innocent persons is impossible in the face of the piesenfc intelligent administration of our murder laws," ho continued, "but many guilty persons escape." He agreed that it. was unpleasant to try women for any offence, but he could not, much as he wished, give any reason why they should not be executed equally with men. ■ At the close of a lengthy interrogation, Lord Darling was asked what, in his opinion, was the most severe punishment apart from hanging. He replied, "I should say cross-examination."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 11
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