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1 Lewis E. Lawes, A Brief History of Capital Punishment; Is the Death Penalty Necessary: The Death Penalty at Sing Sing 1 (1927)

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A  Brief History of Capital Punishment



    Is   the   Death Penalty Necessary?



    The Death Penalty at Sing Sing




                     Three   Articles   by


                LEWIS E. LAWES

                   Warden of Sing Sing Prison


American   League   to Abolish  Capital  Punishment
       (Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York)


104 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.


Phone Chelsea 5196


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  Capital punishment has never been and never
can be anything but an uncertainty. It is a punish-
ment for revenge, for retaliation, not for protec-
tion. We can have a punishment that is possible
of application with both certainty and celerity,
that presents an opportunity for individualization
of treatment, and that is in accord with modern
criminological methods.   Can   we not have the
vision to see the possibilities of the future, the
courage and faith to progress toward those possi-
bilities?

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