Not The Penalty . . .

It is often said that the death penalty must be retained for the protection of our women and children But it was the National Council of Women who stated I hat "the evidence of history has shown us that the most wanton and brutal punishments, from nailing to the cross, burning at the stake, breaking on the wheel, castration, disembowelling, hanging and beheading, have not prevented murder, and modern experience of hanging has further proved the ineffectiveness of realiatory punishment."

Society must be protected against those who would take life. It can do so effectively without resort to the death penalty. Apart from adequate and constructive medical treatment, it has been stated by many authorities that it is not the severity of the penalty, but the certainty of conviction, that is the most effective deterrent.

The death penalty is an "act of despair."

—N. J. Stone.