Capital Punishment And Crime

Iu ft debate in the British House of Cómmöns on the question oí' abolishin capital punishment, Mr. Pease, of DurKam, stated that, during tlie laat sixteen yenrs, fcfoere had been aentenoed to be hnnged in Englund and Wales at lenst 388 crimínaos. Of these 210 were Longed anfl 1,78 risprievéd. The statistics of ..■ipil.al crime show that the punishment of banging does not act ns a deterrent. Tho crimes of horse straling and cattle stealing were uot inoreasöd by the abolition of capital punishment for those offenses. lu Tuscnny tia;rf! hád beon no hfinging for iiity years, and yi t Tuscany, with one-twellth of tlie population of Italy, was chargeable with only onotwentieth of the crime. In Holland tliére had been a very deíúded decrease in ïoiiiicidal ctimes rabcè the abolition of capital punishment. Belginm ml Portugal told the same tale, and in Austria human life was as s.-itV as t was before she adoptad her present lenient policy; nul ii' ün-y W6DÍ to America they would fiiid that in the Btateg whicli had :'.!(j1síhh] baptii] pmiishment murders aiid homióidep h:ul decseased.