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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 11, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 31.

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Lynching and Capital Punishment

The Prison Reform League contends in the words of Doctor Lydston, that “lynching will never be done away with until its parent, capital punishment, has been abolished.” They quote the late Gen. N. M. Curtiss as saying: “A comparison of the criminal laws of foreign countries with those of the United States shows that we undoubtedly have the bloodiest code in the world, and it is confidently stated that we have also the greatest number of homicidal crimes in proportion to population.”