CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
TO THE EDITOB.
Sm,— While in the main agreeing with your Idador on Oapitill punishment 1 would like to draw attention to one matte* whioh you have seemingly overlooked. If a period of incarceration were to be BiilJ* stituted for capital pMnishnlent ttn* doubtedly that punishment, would bd heavier than the short and sharp hanging as at present, but, as I understand it, the r life sentence is, amongst other good reasons, giv<u in order to prevent a monster helping to populate .the world with his offspring. It -is certainly to be hoped, if tho advocates of short punishment ever gain the day, 'that, in the best interests of society, murderers before release will ho incapacitated from perpetuating their own dreadful kind.— l am, etc., , 10! * XX. Wanganui, March 23rd.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9398, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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