Capital Punishment

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(From an address delivered before the American Prison Association at Detroit, Michigan, Oct. 18, 1922.) Three arguments have been advanced for the retention of the death penalty. F33isT. The human need of meeting violence with violence, crime with expiatory vengeance. &dquo;I think it highly desirable that criminals should be hated&dquo;, said Mr. Justice Fitzjames Stephen, and &dquo;that the punishments inflicted upon them should be so contrived as to give expression to that hatred.&dquo;