JUDICIAL BARBARISM
SIR,—As one who has for some time opposed capital punishment on religious as well as practical grounds, I was interested to read your articles, 'Judicial Barbarism' and 'Dropsy.' I am sure that the press can play a big part in winning popular support for the abolition of hanging. To the average man hanging must often appear the logical punish- ment for a murderer; your task is to show that this logic is superficial. Life is so sacred a thing that capital punishment, to be morally justified, must be proved more conclusively than it has been to be the most effective deter- rent. To supersede capital punishment with life imprisonment is a grave step : other Euro- pean states have done it, and have, as far as can he seen, been proved right in so doing. I look forward to more articles probing this subject from your discerning and independent paper.— Yours faithfully,
RUPERT WILKINSON
Priors Mill, Kingsclere, Newbury
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