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1908

10 Feb.

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General

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If the capital sentence mmutes bicause

the prisoner

female, the nason seems

inadequate.

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in England that

as

no

At the rule women should not

br hanged

the following instances the H-O. Giminal Memoranda from the

a Retires within the last 25 years will show :-

Catherine Flanmagan & Margant Higgins executed 1884 for murder by porsoning of Higgins' husband Mary Leftey executed 1804 for porsoning

Mary

her husband

Brittand executed 1886 for poisoning Dusion with vroumen killer.

Mary

Elizabeth Berry executed 1887 for porsoning

her child of 11 with sulphuric aces

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