The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-16
New York State
Is About To Kill a
Woman---A Mother
And Why Not a Woman and a
Mother II Il is Right for the State
To XIII Men-But. Is IL Right
for the State To Lesalize
Murder?

greatly agitated started
h campaign to chair.
The aid been enlisted
being brought Gov Hughes the
to life imprisonment
is doubtful if the governor will do this for precedent has
established the and by other than Theodore
Roosevelt while governor refused interfere
\ ton of murderer.
The Farmer brutal
n Her victims Sarah Brennan.
Sarah Brennan Waterown and Mary Farmer
had forged deed conveying this herself and her husband
In order gain of the home the Farmer
killed Sarah Brennan with
She dismembered body hid pieces in a trunk
Her guilt and the degree murder established beyond
There other than the guilty
person is to call for leniency.
Upon conviction the Farmer sentenced be electro
cuted last August but her lawyers secured delays
The appeals has fixed the day for her execution
naming Monday, March as before daybreak.
The crime vicious that had
united it. he would before have been put death
Now. SHOULD THE FACT THAT ITS PERPETRATOR
WAS A WOMAN STAY THE EXECUTIONERS HAND?
Why should consideration of the ques
ton of six permissible of the of New
York;
That precrbes crime shall be punished
by DEATH be the guilty a
Upon conviction alternative for the trial judge but
TO pronounce that
There strong enough sentiment be aroused the
governor to prevent the eectrocuion,
BUT
they opposed this being put TO DEATH why do
these New Workers active following around
them and crusade against the death penalty altogether?
They certainly consistently take the position that
all right egalze the killing of by the and all
that woman should suffer in kind for the crime
woman possessed of a sound mind is capable
when judging between right and and weighing
the consequences of her wrongful
The punishment the
whether her crime be that of killing stealing.
The force of the law lies its deterrent effect and there
certainly distinction the and the
when it comes this feature of the law.
To this life imprisonment and
put TO death the next guilty of murder in New York
>orld nothing less than
Either the without meeting just punishment
the right take the life of guilty the
crime
The position of these and New York who OPP
pose the death penalty Mary easily accounted tor
The spectacle of death not good to look upon
In land ranking foremost the advancement of civilization
The march the chair before daybreak
In the little whose footsteps echo down the
sombre corridors woman. A MOTHER
They sit the chair; politely and
calamity, these sitting her down death.
The adjusted the bapds fastened to her wrists her
knees and ankles
Then of silence.
moment OF awful silence
The the muscles tighten the body stiens
eways and then relaxes.
AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK HAS KILLED Al
WOMAN AND A MOTHER.
These New York folks socitous Mary
right, but they only half right
The spectacle OF legally killed is NOT good to look
= We stand in adherence when hear that
to be put death than do when the victim alb
horrent enough in the case of a
Yet, long the kills it and kill al
The state should not kill at all.
In which there would be the falling again of
the shadow that New York today