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1 Eight Reasons against Capital Punishment [1] (1928)

handle is hein.death/eirecp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: EIGHT REASONS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 1. IT IS NOT A DETERRENT OF MURDER. In fourteen countries and eight states which have abolished it, murder has not increased. In some it has decreased. It is increasing in many states which have capital punishment. Juries hesitate to convict when there is a death penalty. They do not hesitate at a life sentence. Many great jurists agree with this. 2. IT IS UNJUST Because it is irrevocable. Many innocent men have been executed. It punishes also the innocent descendants of the murderer. 3. IT IS USELESS AND VENGEFUL For it restores nothing. 4. IT IS ANTI-SOCIAL Because it destroys a member of the social body instead of rehabilitating him. Because it destroys regard for the sacredness of life. 5. IT IS POOR ECONOMICS The murderer might work in prison, thus keeping his own or his victim's family from being objects of charity and a charge on the taxpayers, and earn his own keep as well. Dead he is useless, living he may be productive. 6. IT IS DEMORALIZING AND BRUTALIZING To the public and to prison officials and inmates. 7. IT IS AN INCITEMENT TO FURTHER CRIME Through the effect of the unavoidable publicity on unstable, suggestable or child minds. 8. IT IS UNCIVILIZED Can our culture find no better method of protection than did the Piltdown man? Who is responsible for Capital Punishment? The law of the State. Who is the State? You and I. Have we more right to kill collectively than individually? ARE YOU CONSCIENTIOUSLY WILLING TO BE THE EXECUTIONER BY PROXY? IF NOT, GET BUSY AND CHANGE THE LAW! For further information and literature address THE MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY 4 Park Street, Boston, Mass. An unaffiliated organization of Massachusetts citizens

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