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i ii i i l ill w i i in h a the tribune thursday may 8 un capital punish men t t p bruce crawford york regions chief of police wants a referendum on capital punishment he feels the death penalty should apply to all cases of premeditated murder he made his views known on a recent radio talk show a stand thats not com mon among police chiefs across the country what is the stand of the church on this con troversial issue from the office of the united church of canada comes the following editorial above the name of one keith howard and while it may or may not reflect united church policy the comments are in teresting its entitled is capital punishment the answer it reads the line current builds then is loosed a man stiffens convulses dies the death penalty transgressions such as adultery drug peddling hoarding embezzlement and the destruction of army property are punishable by death in many countries we in the west have released from hospital glen major the many friends of mrs john bradbury will be pleased to know shes home following a period of time spent in uxbridge hospital mrs burnett jamieson and mrs lewis jones visited recently with their brother lome paratt of ashburn lome is much improved after being confined to oshawa hospital birthday good wishes to myrtle todrow hazel jones and melissa hingston mrs nell laird betty griffin and jennie l johnson were guests of mrs ross parrott at a recent meeting held at kew beach united church ucw units in toronto were in at tendance and assisted with the program mr and mrs bruce cook and mrs frank cook of toronto called on mr and mrs george pickett mr and mrs claude simmonds spent saturday at glen hills dr station of toronto was a recent sunday visitor with his daughter mrs lynn mccordic and phillip mr and mrs george johnson enjoyed a visit with mr and mrs fred titterton whitby mrs linton neville has returned to white clouds after spending the winter in florida mr and mrs allan holman kevin and dianne of brookhn were recent dinner guests with her mother mrs edgar johnson mr r g ferguson attended a birthday dinner in toronto in honor of mr parker a close friend fined 500 stouffville a stouffville man pleading guilty to a charge of dangerous driving was required to pay 500 or serve three months in jail when he appeared before judge fd white at newmarket court bruce cotton 23 was charged by york regional police feb 2 after he led them on a high speed chase through whitchurch stouffville along woodbine avenue the court was told that cotton narrowly missed collision on several occasions and that at one point a case of beer was thrown from his car counsel for cotton said his client got carried away while en tertaining outoftown friends he told judge white it seemed a big joke at the time your conduct was so bad it would be easy to justify putting you in jail for several months judge white told cotton you have no one else to blame because you have lost your job as a result of this- py-k- cottons licence has been suspended for a year tended to reserve the penalty for only the most serious crimes ironically both those for and against capital punishment fervently believe that it is wrong to take human life those against capital punishment view the legal extermination of a criminal as a violation of every persons right to life some go further and argue that such correction contravenes the basic human right not to be subjected to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment there is little doubt that the imposition of the death penalty is cruel those on death row suffer acute and prolonged mental and physical anguish before execution their victims may also have suffered greatly but if revenge is the motive then perhaps that should be declared the fallible nature of humanity as seen in the judicial system also causes concern for unlike any other punish ment the death penalty is irreversible there is no possibihty of apology or remedy the desire to resuscitate the death penalty might be motivated by a concern to protect society perhaps it is prompted by revenge or does the urge originate in some need for a ritual of human sacrifice to purge the evil in all of us at the very least capital punishment adherents hope that the possibihty of penalization by death will jolt others into refraining from the most unpardonable crime deterrence is a major plank in any platform for the death penalty but the lack of convincing evidence that the death penalty does indeed deter negates the argument if there were to be a strong deterrent effect then at the very least there would have to be cer tainty of apprehension swiftness of judgment appropriateness of sentence none of the tbreeespecially swift ness of justice can be guaranteed in our judicial system i the question is given the uncertain evidence about- its deterrent effect can capital punishment be justified if it doesnt deter what possible good does it do and if it does deter is the possibility of deterrence enough to- 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