DOES “TENDERNESS” PAY?
FOR AMERICAN CRIMINALS THE LAW HAS NO TERRORS FEW PAY THE FULL PL; ALTY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MURDERERS AT LARGE By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Australian and New Zealand Cable Association. (Received April 18, 5..<; 0.m.) NEW YORK, April 17Judge Cavanagh, of the Chicago Superior Court, in addressing an assemblage of manufacturers, said that the lawlessness in the United States to-day was unparalleled in the history of civilisation. 1 There were 118,000 men and women murderers at large in the United, States who had never been brought to justice. During 1925 there were more than 10,000 homicides, compared with 100 in England. “Evil-minded men in the United States have no respect for the law,” he said, “because it has been their experience that they need have no fear of its penalties. The criminal knows the chances are three to one that he will never be arrested if he kills, twelve to one that he will never be convicted, and more than a hundred to one that he will not pay the full penalty for his crime.” Judge Cavanagh recommends the reform of judicial procedure, and the abolition of tenderness, and of technicalities which have encouraged and protected criminals.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12424, 19 April 1926, Page 8
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201DOES “TENDERNESS” PAY? New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12424, 19 April 1926, Page 8
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