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The punishment of death must itself bear the heavy burden of proof. Not only its utility, but also its absolute necessity must be demonstrated if execution for homocide is to be retained. None of the justifications of punishment appear to offer such demonstration.
Some retentionists claim that the death penalty builds up some sort of "moral abhorrence" in the community for the crime of homicide, the supreme punishment stigmatizing it as the greatest offense. But execution is hardly a moral argument; ethical standards are the products of education and environment, not force.
Recent psychological evidence, furthermore, hints that the threat of execution actually increases the possibility for homicide by appealing to the potential murderer's sense of the spectacular. The criminal mind may be drawn to the celebrity accompanying a murder trial, conducted by a jury with a guillotine in its pocket...
As protests rolled in, including a petition with 5,000 signatures, both Republican and Democratic candidates for mayor in the Nov. 5 election came out in favor of saving the manse. Socialist Mc Levy, who is running for a 13th term, sent his men out to tear down the greenhouse...
The Adversaries. Tito grows through the book from an awkward villager to a smooth party functionary to a puffed-up dictator wearing the most splendid uniforms since Göring. He alternately appears a shrewd peasant, a cold-eyed killer, a sentimental family man. There is rough humor as well...