The Parker post., 1912-10-12
REPRIEVES 4
MURDERERS
GOVERNOR HUNT SAVES LIVES
OF MEN WHO WE'RE TO BE
HUNG AT ARIZONA PENiTEN-
TIARY FRIDAY, OCT. II.

The following proclamation was
issued by Gov. Hunt Friday, reprlev-
ing the death sentences of four noto-
rious murderers, who were to pay
the penalty of their crimes on the
gallows:
ITO All To Whom These Presents
Shall Come, Greeting;
Whereas, pursuant to Indictment
for murder in the County OF Yav-
apai, Territory of Arizona, and
t,ial therefor and conviction there
of in the district court of the fourth
Judicial District, in and for said
County of Yavapai, William Camp
bell, Eduardo Perez and N. B. Cha
vez were sentenced to be hanged
by the neck until dead at the State
u ison, Florence, Arizona, on the
eleventh day of October, 1912;
and
Whereas, pursuant to indictment
for murder in the County
Yavapai, State of Arizona, and
trial therefor and conviction thereof
in the Superior Court in and for said
County of Yavapai, Miguel Peralta
was sentenced to be hanged by the
neck until dead at the State Prison,
Florence, Arizona, on the eleventh
day of October, 1912; and
Whereas, the citizens of Arizona,
graz eful for their recent accession
to the privileges of Statehood,
fee. genuine pride in the high rank
which their State has taken among
the most progressive commonwealths
Of The Union, by the founding of
a Government on the principles of
Humanity, Utility and Economy;
and
and by comprehensive statistics
compiled by the Worlds most En-
: f1ent SoeiologiSts and Political
Economists, it has been proven be-
yond ali doubt, that Capital Punish
nent is not founded upon utility;
that it does not act as an efficient
Deterrent from capital crime; but
for reasons that are apparent incites
the social consciousness to further
violance and bloodshed; as is shown
by the facts that the states leading
in the number of legal executions
also lead in lynchings; while Mich
igan and Wisconsin, which abol-
ished capital punishment over fifty
years ago, have during the last ten
years had only half as many muir
Ohio, which has vigorously applied
the Death Penalty; and
Whereas. a murder is none the
less a murder when committed by
society instead of by an individual;
cOntravenes the dictates of Modern
Christianity and the Ideals of Civ
!l;Zation, and therefore has no more
rightful place in the social order OF
today than than had the dreadful
orgies of witchcraft in the social
order of two centuries ago, but is
a CHASTITY error of ancient Judgment
dictum OF darker ages; and mas
much as the first state legislature
during its regular and extraordinary
sessions, was so occupied by mat
ters of vital Importance to the state
as to have been prevented from max
ing capital punishment adequately
the subject of investigation and de
liberation, and
Whereas, | deem it to be for the
best interests of Arizona and in alb
sOlute accord with the irreproachable
record thus far maintained by this
state as a commonwealth alive tc
every need of the age and alert to
every call of progress, that the leg
islature, which of necessity must be
convened in special session within
few months, shall have second or
portunity to apply its energy, states
manship and Judgment to a proposal
for the abolition of capital punish
ment and thus forbid that our fail
state should stain her career by the
quadruple execution scheduled tC
occur on October II, 1912; and
Whereas, it is my earnest belief
that the will of the people Of Ari
zOna, in being a servant of whom
am highly honored, would not dictate
or sanction the deliberate hanging o.
four men under sentence of death
at the state prison, in transgressio1
of the law of God and defiance OF
the teachings of christianity, that
greatest of civilzing influences
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