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Title: The University of Virginia; memories of her student-life and professors
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Culbreth, David Marvel Reynolds, 1856-1943
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 University of Virginia University of Virginia
Publisher: New York : Neale
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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demands of justice. In our country I believe capitalpunishment to be absolutely imperative in order that the chas-tity of the home be maintained and the purity of societyguarded. He alluded to the circus man and to Myers, who wasimprisoned five years on the testimony of one claiming tohave heard his voice in the crowd where the murder was com-mitted. Two other men also were arrested, but released shortlyafterwards, when public feeling had largely subsided. Herehanging would have been a great injustice, as the evidencewas vague and hypothetical. I admit, like all questions, thispresents two sides, and that the negative will plead the hu-manitarian and utilitarian interests—the removal of a hus-band or father to a destitute and otherwise dependent familybeing an unnecessary sorrow and loss when a penitentiaryservice for life might be turned to state profit and revenue.But this phase fades into insignificance when compared withthe moral degeneracy all communities would experience from
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3 h UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 239 what many culprits consider not an objectionable method ofpaying penalty. Messrs. Smith and Clark (Neg.)—Both spoke along paral-lel lines, believing that capital punishment was instituted notonly to atone a specific crime, thereby preventing the same in-dividual committing others, but by example to deter those ofsimilar evil impulses from taking fatal steps. They referredto Salorns case, who murdered his brother and mother, andafter two trials released, possibly to kill some one else or com-mit other dastardly deeds; also mentioned the Stokes andWalworth crimes—how defiant and indifferent the latterseemed when facing death, kissing his mother as under nounusual stress of mind. Mr. Smith claimed that hanging isrecognized more generally by the press than the mere sendingof a convict to penitentiary for life, thus making the incidentwider known and its influence stronger felt. He did not be-lieve criminals generally had large families, or contributedmuc

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