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1 Eight Reasons Why Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished [1] (1931)

handle is hein.death/ercpab0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Eight Reasons Why CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD be ABOLISHED 1. Because it is not a deterrent. If it were, murder would have in- creased in the states and in the countries which have already abolished the death penalty. In most of these states and countries murder has decreased. In no abolition state or coun- try has there been an increase. 2. Because it is irrevocable. There have been proven cases of the conviction of innocent men. 3. Because juries more and more refuse to convict in first degree murder cases. Society is endangered by allowing the guilty to go free. In states which have abolished capital punishment there is a higher percentage of convictions. 4. Because capital punishment is an advertisement of murder. News- papers give wide publicity to morbid or dramatic details of executions. The effect on many is demoralizing. 5. Because it inflicts shame and suffering on the innocent relatives of the condemned, without alleviating the suffering of the vic- tim's friends. A second death cannot undo the first. 6. Because it is demoralizing to prison officials and prison inmates. The majority of the prison wardens of the United States, and all modern penologists and psychiatrists deplore the effect of capital punishment. 7. Because our belief in the sanctity of human life should forbid the State (which is you and I) to imitate the murderer. The business of the modern community is to reform the offender. 8. Because we do not want the United States to be the last country to take this penal step ahead. The following states have al- ready abolished capital punishment: Maine, Rhode Island, Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Min- nesota. The following countries have abolished capital punish- ment: Portugal, Holland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Roumania, Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia, Switzerland (15 cantons), Finland, Denmark, Belgium, New South Wales, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentine, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico: 3 States-Campeche, Yucatan and Pueblo. League to Abolish Capital Punishment A National Organization 104 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. Phone Chelsea 5196

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