Capital Punishment

"Urother GarJner" has this to say about the restoration of capital punishment: "De objeck in restorin' capital punishniünt ara uot to stop murder, fur dat can't be done, but it am to properly punish ruurdeierá. When a man goes to state prison lie ïuay escapo; he may be pardoned out; at best, libs well an' in peaco. If he am hung by the neck 'till dcad dat am one munlurer less for de public to take car' of an' worry about. We know right whar' he am :i.!l de time, un' we know dat lio has rccoibed hit just desarts."