The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-15

oman's Execution in Ratibor, Germany, in 1892. The
Gene Was Recently Repeated Just Shown Here When
Murderesses Were Beheaded in the Same Old Prison.
yiers most terrible of poisoners of Queen Marie An
toinette and OF the countless other good and
bad who had been done to death. often with horrible
tortures, in other days.
Executions of women have occurred more frequently
Germany than in any other civilized country In
cent years.
An execution which attracted much attention
that Of Crete Beer, at Freiberg. in Saxony In 1909
She was very handsome and accomplished young
and the daughter OF the Mayor of Freberg
She murdered her ance with remarkable heartessness
and deIberation-
The ndiction Of the death penalty upon a Is
evidently becoming rare occurrence in the civilized
world and there are many reformers who say that
should be- stopped before the total abolition Of
capital punishment. In the United States, the senenc-
ing of woman to death which rarely happens as Of
ten in year, always storm Of protest
from hhmanitarians, but 1t would be rash to that
the States to relieve women from the supreme
penalty altogether.
In France woman is ever sent to the guiIotine.
although the law permits it. Italy follows the same
example. In Russia capital punishment, except under
martial law has been abolished.
In England women still subject to the death
penalty and executed last year, but the courts
tend to show more leniency toward the weaker sex.
In the halfcvilized countries of the East
men These people still living in the Middle Ages
For instance in Persia recently woman was stoned
to death for bigamy, act which In man would have
been no crime.
In the year 1912 there was execution of woman
in civilized country OF Europe America, and this
led humanitarians expect that the practise would
cease altogether. but they mistaken.
Those who oppose the inhiction OF capital punish
ment women base their position generally the
gentler and weaker constitution OF the fair and
the fact that stands In the attitude of protector
toward woman We DO not nhict the death penalty upon
little children and for the should not
inic it 1t is also urged that 1t is atrocious
10 execute being VINO is may become mother.
The records prove that Is less frequently
criminal than man. but on the other hand some
commit crimes which for cod-blooded cruelty cannot
be surpassed, Indeed there seems ground for argu-
ing that more exceptionally cruel murders are
mitted by than by men,
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fundamental characteristics mas explained the
differences in the crimnaty Of and women very
interestingly:
The forms Of criminality into which women most
easily fall are the subtlest like poisonng) and also
the more domestic forms Murders assaults burgaries.
thefts, commercial crmes-as we'll the so-caled
political crimes-are comparatively among
In Italy for 100 who commit any of these Of
lenses the proportion OF is from six to below
Poisoning the other hand is enthusiastically
feminine crmina- method In Greek days, Eurpides
makes Medea that poison is the form Of murder In
eminence since In France the proportion Is about
six to thre four that about two
thirds of detected of poisoning are by women.
In Italy, for 100 men found guilty of poisoning
there 123
"Infanticide the crime In which women stand out
in greatest to men, in Italy, for example for
every 100 men guilty of ipfantcide. there are All
Women as Quetelet long since remarked are do
mestic criminals; this is simply because the home oc
cupies large a field in their life generally; even
against their children, and apart from nfancide
women commit crimes somewhat Frequently than
the fathers This has been the experience OF the So
ciety for the Protection OF Children, which In GO year
obtained convictions against 347 fathers and 356
mothers. The crimes OF women are usually mora
marked BY cruelty than those Of men