CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
IS IT A DETERRENT?
<p 3:fter long years of official experience, I have found that capital punishment is no deterrent to crime,” said TTlc coroner, Mr Graham, at an inquest at Durham prison recently on Haseen Mohamed, an Arab, who was executed for murdering a woman. "After a sentence," added the coroner, "a man is allowed considerable choice of food, and is even permitted to smoke. I have a strong conviction that it is time some other system of punishment was devised. "1 agree with Mr Plowdon in his ‘Anomalies of English Law/ that what a murderer really dreads is not death, but pain. I would favour flogging and servitude m preference to the barbarous system of execution/’
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11660, 26 October 1923, Page 2
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