SOLITARY CONFINEMENT INSTEAD OF DEATH.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, December 31. The partial suppression of the death penalty has had a disastrous result on murder statistics, as no alternative to the guillotine has yet been devised. Even hard labour on Devil’s Island, which is the second severest punishment in the penal code, seems mild and almost light in comparison with beheading, especially as some convicts quickly escape to a foreign country, whence extradition is impossible. The Prison Council of France is now considering embodying solitary confinement for life in the penal code, for I murderers escaping the death penalty. Italy recently adopted a sj-stem of lifelong solitary confinement in special isolated circular cells. Authorities state that criminals regard this punishment as worse than death. The question, however, is whether French public opinion will favour a punishment recalling the tortures of the Middle Ages.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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