Conery & Son, John T. Hardie, Nelson Mc
Stea, Jtlius Weis & Co., I. N. Marks, Henry
Abraham & Son, Clufue and Vowell and
Katz & Barn m t:
We favor thip conmpttation because while
we believe in a vit ndication of the law. in the
suppression of crime and the punishment of
criminals. yet we rear the effect of a stern en
forcement of the judgment which, by its start
ling inequality. does violence to the communi
ty's sense of justice. To execute these two men,
the ignorant dupes of the wiles of an arch con
spirator. himidlf the actual perpetr.Ctor of the
crime, who escat~t pTth alt ftpriiionment fora
term of twenty years is to countenance a tray.
esty upon justice which will be productive of
much evil and hut little good.
The one end of all punishment is to prevent
ftg~re prime. :The public gains equal security,"
says no elninent writer o.i driinai ' law,
"whether the offendor hlimself be amended by
wholesome correction, or whether he be disa
bled from doing further harm.... It is only when
the offender appears incorrigible that the pains
of death should be inflicted."
('rimes are more effectually prevented by the
eeriainty than the severity of punishment.
Therefore it is that every punishment in elceAs
of the actual necessity of each case is not only
cruel and barbarous, but tyrannical. Terrorism
as such, has alwayt been shown to` multiply
rather than dimiiit8h brutal crime.
We believe thlt a searching icyehtigation of
the past lives of tie condemned men warrants
the assertion that they are not incorrigible
offenders. We feel that had the jury, who now
seek to .scure a mitigation of the sentence pro
nounced in accordance with their fmding, quali.
