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Abolition Of Capital Punishment

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
May
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

By our legislativo eummary it will bc eeen ihal Michigan has taken ihe Icad of all iho oihur States in abolishing the Dealh Penalty. Wc doubt not tho exatnplc will be generally followed by the Free States. The Slaveholding States are so far behind iho others in civilizaiion that il is probable ihey wiil huid on to üiis relie of barbarism for somu time to come. Indeed, in sevcral States, thcy have no State peniteniiary of any kind. It is thought to be cheaper to whip, erop and brand crimináis, or hang theni at once. A ynar or two stncea man wns sentenced to death in North Carolina, for stealinp a pair of lfwe remeinber riyhtly. he was hanjed, and one apology made ior the deed was that thcy had no sunicicnt jail to keep hiin in. Our L?isiature have subsiitutcil lor dcatli solilary impriuonnienl at inrd labor for lifc. - This is wcll, exerpt the provisión for iiiakiiijj the imprisontnent soliturrj. Wc suo no great humnniiy in burying a manalive in a stonc tomb, forevcreut ofl" from all conncction with the human race, lint this provisión will bc propcrl amonded in duc time.