Mt. Cleinens Press : "The Press does not...

Mt. Cleinens Press : "The Press does not believe in capital punishinent and until it can be clearly proven that there is less murder in states that have such a law, it never will. Take the case of the killing of Nfllie Griffin by old man Canfleld, who is there that believes for an instant that the old brute would have hesitated for an instant from the commission of the crime, if hanging had been the penalty for murder? He was the son of a murderer, and the same low brutal impulses which, in the parent, led him to kick his frail wife out into the snow on a cold winter night, and leave her to her fate, reasserted themselves years later in the son, and irresistibly bore him onward to the commission of a vile deed. The subtle force is beyond the reach of the hangman's rope."