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1 M. M. Quaife, Capital Punishment in Detroit 33 (1926)

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                               Burton

                   Historical Collection

                               Leaflet
                    Published bimonthly, September to June by the
                              Detroit Public Library
                 __          Edited by M. M. QUAIFE
                 Entered as second class matter Feb. 1,1922, at the post office at Detroit, ich., under
                               the Act of August 24, 1912
Vol. IV              JANUARY,   1926                 No. 3



    Capital Punishment in Detroit

                   By  M.  M. QUAIFE.

FROM the dawn of human history mankind has faced
   the problem what disposition to make of those individuals
who  transgress the established rules of society. The surest
method  of preventing the repetition of offenses is, of course,
to terminate the existence of the offender, and among  all
peoples resort to capital punishment has been had for the
punishment  of the graver offenses against society. In the
punishment  of crime as in all things else fashions wax and
wane.   In recent decades a growing repugnance  to the in-
fliction of capital punishment has been manifested through-
out the United States. Quite otherwise was it a century and
a half ago, when in England  the law is said to have recog-
nized over one hundred  capital offenses, and when scarcely
a month passed that did not witness half a dozen executions.
Even  in our own  Detroit men  have been put to death for
the commission  of offenses so petty in character that they
would  seem to the modern mind  to have offered no serious
menace  to the welfare of society.
   At  the present time two  conflicting currents of public
sentiment are manifest.  There has been no  legal infliction

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