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1 Clarence Darrow, Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished 85 (1934)

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MODERN THINKER


-     1934


-     Vol. IV


               ONE REASON WHY  SO MANY RICH AND SO MANY
               POOR VIOLATE THE LAWS IS THAT MEN HAVE MADE
               PROPERTY THE FIRST CONCERN OF LIVING. WE
               CAN LESSEN CRIME ONLY WHEN WE OVERCOME THE
               INCENTIVE TO CRIME WHICH, IN THE LAST ANAL-
               YSIS, IS POVERTY, THE DREAD OF WANT AND THE
               DESIRE TO LIVE. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS OF NO
               AVAIL. MR. DARROW'S VIEWPOINT WAS CRITICIZED
               IN THE NOVEMBER ROTARIAN BY HENRY BAR-
               RETT CHAMBERLIN. THIS IS MR. DARROW'S ANSWER.

Should Capital Punishment

Be Abolished?

                            By  CLARENCE BARROW
                                 Famous Criminal Lawyer


           THE lurid and
hysterical crusade against crime is
nothing new. It will not upset
all the safeguards of liberty which
humanity has thrown about the
citizen, but is already giving them
a terrible jar. The people can not
be kept in a state of unthinking


fury for long. Something else will
command the attention of the pub-
lic, and the present mania will
grow stale.
  So far as the energy of what
Wendell Phillips once character-
ized as the broadcloth mob is
concerned, it is directed against


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