GERMAN PENAL CODE
COMMISSION’S REPORT. STARTLING RECOMMENDATIONS. LONDON, Aug. 22. The German Penal System Reform Commission recommends that capital punishment be retained. At the same | rime it draws attention, says the Berlin correspondent of the Times, to the possibility of allowing some condemned persons to poison or shoot themselves. This, it is stated, would carry out the principle of granting such a person ’s last wish. Judges, the commission says, should be empowered to order drastic punishment, with solitary confinement in dark cells equipped with beds without mattresses, thus enabling the period of imprisonment to be curtailed. The commission recommends the sanctioning of duelling as a worthy form of settling disputes, provided that provocation is not frivolous and duelling rules are observed. Beheading heads the list of punishments in the new penal code. Sentences to penal servitude will be accompanied by loss of civil rights and confinement of the convicted apart from other prisoners for specially severe treatment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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