The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
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Does Hanging Discourage MurderG NO

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Does Hanging Discourage MurderG NO
The State of Nevada has adopted new 'knd" way of
killing its murderers of them last Friday
so-called ctha chamber filled with deadly
sns Vns o uy do a1 and an
through which officials and relatives may look at the
he is strapped into the newfanged death chair and is
allowed they push him through the door, and tie him to the
chair, to say his last words.
officials relatives Of the dying may look through the peep
hole Hydrocyanic gas turned In few seconds or
Somebody invented that new way disgracng science
by making scientific knowledge into hangman
And now they use 1t.
The first man to die in that chamber Chinese And
before they tried the Chinese they tried it on cat TO
make sure that it will kill.
Last Friday they killed gigantic Serbian nearly six and
. half feet high named stanko Judich And before they
coed death with the sfocatng gas they put in two
an them They rolled over and died in few seconds.
The point that we wish to make for our readers this
TT FRIGHTENs THE CRIMINAL AND DIsCoURAGEs
MURDER.
As they pushed him through the door death room
LED him n the chair and left him to his death passing out
through the alright door, he shouted after them with another
laugh boys II make place n heaven LOT you
she fact that the state MURDERS the M6RDERER give to-
the condemned man feeling of bravado of mock heroim7
Add to that the stupid fuss that make over
condemned murderers sending flowers and instead Of
from crime you what many muderers romantic
adventure chance to prove their gameness
GOODBYE BOYS, ! WILL MAKE 4 PLACE IN
HEAVEN FOR YOU is not the farewell message Of man
who has been impressed by the death penalty
At another kind Of punishment that Serbian giant Judch
might NOT have laughed Life Of hard work IN which TO
Others NOT FOB HIMSELF weguarded in the prison with
walls Or on an island with wide water around that would
prospect Of that kind would not have made the tan
murderer laugh or brag would be too slow too permanent
The worst Of capital punishment that SETS THE BAD
man kills in anger or deliberately plans murder be-
he hates
through the mouth Of the Judge W. hate YOU SO we
going KILL you We are going to do to you whom we
HATED"
Why shOuldnt the murderer say to himself, II am all
doing it, the State hates and kills ME- only following
the example set from above
There was when the State tortured before
cutting them Ravaac who killed Henry the Fourth,
tortured way horrible that could be described In
this column without making that read sick and faint
was exhausted before his life at last ended.
when he dead fragments of his body actually
different Of Paris and that
The dregs of the people government
barbarous all over the world
Capital punishment practice it, with gallows
electric chair lethal chamber is not bad the old
method of torture first and death afterward
But it is bad ENOUGH. also proves that people are
still barbarous.
or KILLING.
Instead diminishing the number of murderers it in
creases The murderer say to himself IF they
CATCH me they will kill betting my life against
the life that take THAT'S FAIR"
Take the murderer and say to him. "You
dere but the justice under which you live is NOT MUIR
derer.
You killed shall not kill you, but shall give
you long years in which to repent your killing.
Possibly shall reform that quality within you that
made the killing possible In any shall make the rest
of your OTHERS thus enable you really
atone for having taken the life of one
Capital punishment of date dgraces justice does
not murder the contrary increases the number
killings.
Capital punishment should be abolished.
When the Law Slips