Show CAPITAL punishment FOR CAPITAL CRIME THERE are many wel meaning peo i advocate the abolition of capital punishment they look upon the death penalty even when inflicted fon for the wilful taking of a humanlike human life as nothing ess than legalized murder they offer many pla plausible usable arguments against blood that it is revengeful barbarous and unworthy of an advanced civilisation civilization elvi tivi some states have adopted the views ultra humanitarians and the swiss federation has notably led out in this th la direction batso but so far as our information extends we kno know of n nd d place I 1 ja te where abolition the of the gaft death penalty for murder is considered to have been beneficial ve notice in the news from switzerland of a recent date that the different cantons in that republic are gradually establishing reestablishing re capital punishment after having tried the policy of imprisonment for life as its substitute it appears that there is nothing which will operate so forcibly as a deterrent upon the criminal tile the certainty that a shameful death will follow conviction for murder since the adoption of the more lenient policy in switzerland murders have been so frequent and mandof many of them of such great atrocity that public sentiment has changed and now the demand is generally made for the there reenact re enact enactment ment of the death penalty in one of the cantons bordering on germany a man set fire to a farmhouse and caused the death of five persons in the canton of lucerne a child only eight years old was murdered by some tramps and at beme berne a locksmith shot a young man who was guilty of no worse offense than that of fishing on his land without leave the colonel of a regiment was murdered in the canton of ticino by a man with whom he had remonstrated in a cafe for using bad language and though the crime was committed in the presence of several people the assassin was allowed to escape these were only a few of the homicides that occurred inside of three weeks in those portions of the united states where the death penalty is part of the law capital crimes it is true are frequently perpetrated pet rated but the trouble is that there are so many means of escape for the vie culprit the insanity plea piea pi ea meets with too much favor there a are re so many technicalities that form loopholes for the benefit of the criminal and the laws delays which have become proverbial seem to be multiplied in the special behalf of the murderer then if the extreme penalty should happen to be pronounced after newe trials and appeals and other legal subterfuges have failed the condemned sinner is transformed into a hero in the minds of 0 super sentimental people and his path to the gallows is strewed with flowers watered by the tears of sympathetic imbeciles imbe ciles and on the fatal scat seat scaffold roid rold praying priests assure the tile blood guilty wretch of a quick passage into the joys of everlasting life and glory if he only assents to the atonement of the redeemer it is a little singular that people who profess to believe that the bible iq ii the word of god entertain these ideas of extra tenderness towards the worst of malefactors it is written miswritten that the murderer hath hath bath not eternal life abiding in him and the eternal has flat fiat gone forth without revocation whoso choso shed deth maur maul man mau of him also shall VZ mans blood be shed the death penalty for murder was pronounced and established by the highest authority by him who hold tile the keys of life and who has the right to punish or reward to theetter the uttermost human governments have adopt fd rd th the death ideath penalty from the divine law it is the only adequate earthly retribution for the crime of wilful murder it is a mistake to call it simply revenge it is simple simpie justice it is the right penalty for the broken law extreme punishment h me nt for extreme crime it is also needful for the protection of society the community has the right to protect itself from tile the lawless individual and is just in establishing the death penalty for him who unlawfully takes life it is consistent in making certain the inability of the tile destroyer to commit further furt lier iier destruction the desperate efforts that are made by condemned murderers to escape that final penalty is proof of its terrors to the guilty soul and while there will always be te persons in the present fallen condition of the race who will forget or defy the law when base passion holds sway in their souls it cannot be denied that the certainty of execution to follow discovery will deter many from taking the fatal step which is to bring them to the gallows on earth and tile tiie vengeance of the eternal in the world to come we believe that the swiss people are returning to the right method of dealing n with assassins however I we do not advocate the popular mode of dealing out the death penalty the only atonement the murderer can give for his crime is the pouring boutot out at his own blood as an offering ing to offended justice to this extent we believe in blood atonement outside of the great sacrifice on the mount of crucifixion murder is a sin tsin unto death which prayers and repentance and ordinances will not wash away our enemies who seek to misinterpret everything every eveny thing in our creed which gives them the tile slightest opportunity to falsify can make what use they please of this avowal but we do not believe in the illegal infliction of a legal punishment ish ment he be that breaks tile the law is amenable to the law and the slayer of man should be punished by the shedding of his blood at the hands of the lawfully appointed executioner cut ioner private vengeance is forbidden by the divine wordani word and is barred barrel by human enactment |