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Capital Punishment: Pro and Con
Kohler, Wakter J. | April 28, 1956 issue

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This article presents readers responses to capital punishment. Jo M. Ferguson favors capital punishment. In a century in which barbarism has returned and triumphed in so great a part of the world, in the efficient form of gas chambers and slave labor camps, he think that people of the English-speaking world are becoming a bit precieuse in their consideration for the lives of hardened criminals. He don't find it necessary to analyze his reasons for wishing the world rid of such individuals, though he never was convinced that the threat of death is not a deterrent.

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CAPITAL punishment; CRIMINAL law; CRIMINALS; GAS chambers; PUNISHMENT; LETTERS to the editor
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