Capital Punishment

..The nuniber ofcrimes once punished wilh death ín hngiana , wqs about Two Hundred ; it is now reduce d to thirteen ; and a motion has been made in Parliament for the entire abolilion of tho dealh penalty; and to confine executions heienfter to tbc jailyard while they exist. Osear, King of Sweden, haa produced a work on Punishments and prisons," filled with inporant statis!ic8.