THE SUNDAY STATC, WASHINGTON, T). C„ JANUARY 1. 1028—T*AT?T f5. 3 Darrow Scans Pages From History in Condemning Executions RY rl-ARKNCK HARROW, Lawyer anil Authority <m Cnminal of taking a life are not In Justice. much danger <J d‘-ath. people commit a de*'*l real reason why so many Attorney in Criminal at Capital ever consent to such Cases Believes Th Punishment Does Not Have the Effect of Decreasing Crime—Burglar Isihilityif they have the victim before them people tenaciously cling to the punishment | and realize what it nre-ons. idea of capital is The question human r»*»ponsibii !>ecaitse they take pleasure In Who Wishes to Escape Imprisonment Resorts to Killing at Times, Pro of THK With spect of Even Greater Punishment. I ity has always Icen a subject of «!*• inflicting on those they tv-tin : bate. It is at *•* rtain that no hate. Os course, they would not ad- least ! organisms have the amo p*<w*r mit that this is the reason; at the two “! consider this beyond their of resistance to motives. proof very plain Jurisdiction. ; life ns a moans of saving themselves i j same time the is ! However, with most punishments law are a v*-<\ from arrest While In the act of bur- Most m**n who kill »>f All early punishments were mainly makers and executioners do the best I nature are easily rn -v< < ¦ ' glury or robbery. i unstable and vindictive, hut then, primitive people they can even to accomplish this end 'by outside No organ honest than civilized | If hanging John Hmith is to keep pressure. *wo atv more ones The people of today deny that the\ isms are affect* *! to the same *xt*r> ar.d are not so anxious to hide their ' j other people from murder, how is It to j ‘ j punish from vengeance. They adnri i accomplished? I'la inly, It lie !by the same sort »>f indue* m**nt. A motives. Civilized people think more again.- ; lie must j 1 - that they have indignation necessary that the public should know very largo proportion of th****- w '.> of themselves. criminal, 1 ! tho hut their indignation it- that John Smith is hanged. IJoth in commit **rim**are r*aily ps* chop' Primitive people used the death pen- "righteous” indignation. The won It ¦ to of ¦ Knuland and America this was once , u af«* nay that w alty for all sorts of offenses and the 1 1 “righteous" only confesses hvpoerisv made clear by hangings on a high hill | tii* cause v.as sufficient f*> aft •-t e.< general practice continued even until Hatred is hatred. Prefixing the won! i overcome special a N* wi'hin 1 in broad daylight, which were attended | j their struct the last 200 years. At that : "righteous" makes it in no waywliffer ; one can put himself n the some f by thousands of people. These were an*/her'.* lime 200 crimes were capital of- ; ent. People punish those whom they ,Toi <lo this Is*- must have not only t fenses in Kngland. including abolished mainly because it was found • poach i hate. No one can inflict pain or tor ‘same outsld*- surroundingti but t jng and petii larceny. Not that the spectacle, instead of prevents j long ago • tore upon an without same structure. For this r*-a*. n n< good only individual hat ing crime, caused it, through sugges- I folks not used «ho death i ing him. on** can fairly Judge anottc r sentence for most offenses, hut in- In the preparation tion. No country, however tierce and for war, when barbarous, would provide for public Crime and jioverty an<l ignomn*. flated it in the most terrible ways—- nations begin to j | mobilize, the first hangings igo together, as a part *>f f.h ¦ ird r hanging, today. This method of kill- * hy flaying, dismemberment, j unit in the field is the liar. These are itanee of the *lefec*ive and !i ,- ing is even contained the Hau- ( tl v'* throwing down from a high wall, cru- called into this pleasant service to not in circumstance*. When t'.e wo Id mes law. As a rule, the kills peo- !of cifixion. drowning, stoning, starving | make soldiers hate the enemy, so that State understands this and knows that so ple m the dark, with no one present and forth. they will kill them, in punishment every is pre** by except a officials, physician j j act d*-*l a cause nr No matter what of every effort is few a who j s to tj,*» thV method kill made all down the lim ; causes, it will <k r-move inc. death was preceded by torture—- to magnify the ferocity is not there to save his life and a of the act and minister. .causes of *-rir*»" and poverty an<l igno- not the torture of notifying the the moral ranee, ;'! con- delinquency of the con kided : and th«*n. ard *>n’v fh*-n. v demned of the exact time and way demned. so that the punishment will He is in silent** and darkness i the great mass of rh*-se hnni<n ! so that the people will not witness the | m.*r of his death, but physical torture, Ih’ fixed in hatred and anger and e;>r 1 adjustm* n’s di.sajjpear from the world. which to these simple minds was lied out in the same spirit. This ! brutality of the State. If this terrible I care act is prevent much more obvious than nv' ita! tor- fully created emotion called ! to killings, then it j is “right certainly Hire. As distinctions were made in eons" indignation. J should in; open and, instead Standardization. jof keeping people away punishments, those offens. < which Kvery one nowadays has given ui> from the scene, they should he compelled to g<>. * caused the most hatred, like religious defending capital punishment on am i TilK system of the • »nd irdlzafion and political crimes, wore visited with theory except that hanging | Hut we are even more inconsistent i of now so at rici- or other- and foolish P «rts. the severest penalties. | wise killing one man keeps others j than this. No motion pic- noted wi h Kli Wi . r. the inventor j tore is al!*»wed to reproduce the crime At no time in the history of the from committing a capital offense. No ; <*f the cotton gir». wh*-t ?.*• ’.t. >r*oo'< the State. * world— not even now—were 'he of- one who considers this question jof Men. women and rhil- ’ to make mu Th** loverrr.cn* be ! dren see fenses which are the most serious lieves it. but still it is repeats! cannot the helpless victim!j gave him a rontrac* in 1" •'5 <r 1" < *•• over | strapped and slaughtered, punished in the most brutal way. and over again hy those who either do even in the stands of arms, although h** .ad ro - movies, From pve y standpoint, except the not know or do I it would be a wise thing to ! plant for their manufacture. H*» built not care. do. :f this transparent of; loss of life, murder is not one of the Are men kept from killing thei: pretension a small factory in New Haven md be- ! the advocate of capital punishment gan work, ob-g«e> most serious offenses and not one fellows iieeanso they are afraid to kill but found a srr*nt which marks the culprit as tv ng the Kvery one who kills, was anything hut a pretension. * in the difficulty of getting co* 1 w* rk- excepting thosi If to most dangerous who kill men are he kept from killing men. especially those capable of a*t. and abandoned. A in the heat of passion, pre by fear, then large portion of the prison pares away of escape. all human beings of all ing as foremen under hi- no*,el mch trusties in The killei ages, especially young, are those who are mur- never intends the should see *>ds. His plan was to make of his fac- confined for to lie caught, and often* "ha it means der and are under life sentences. This he is not. in the crimes of profound to die at the hands of tory a singb* hug** machine. the state. In this way the wicked im- is because they can he relied on better - feeling and passion consequences are In an armory before Whitney’s dav i pulse to go out and kill would visual highly by than those who are in prison for | 1 thrown to the wind anil the certainty each man. skil!»d. produced ire something of the wages of crime. himself a part :< many other offenses. The terrible! of the punishment of death does not i distinct of musk»t. prevent These pictures are not shown because, This division of labor Whitney sup- crimes of the world which have al- the act. spite ways demanded the horrible If people are really in of the hatred and vengeance planted hv so apportioning work th ? most pen- j kept from pun of the public, skies are crimes like witchcraft, ishmont fear, even the very common i little or no skill was demanded. H- her- through then the more man still has some vague esy, blaspheming, Sabbath breaking ]j terrible the punishment provided feeling that separa’ed ’he various task* and at the* the young, especially from operations treason, or constructive; greater fear. i act sugges- each of these k*-p* a grout* and real in the The old forms of tion.