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ON every hand at the

present time we come across high-pres- sure propaganda for the total abolition of the death penalty.

We had it from the Con- servative Conference, trom which We expected better things, and then the viewing public had it at its most subtle from the B.B.C. in its television documentary called The Death Penalty

As one who was reluctantly persuaded to take part in this programme I am in a specially

informed position about the subtle methods of these con- vinced but crank abolitionists.

I would not have faced fur- ther publicity were it not for my feeling that it is my duty to reveal, among other things, the clever

and relericss pressure brought to bear on me, and therefore one maassumne on others, to mould the programme Into having B total effect favouring abolition.

DIVERTED

This is characteristic of the technique of the abolitionist,

The more critical observer must have noticed how impor- tant the abolitionist regards it to divert attention away from the victims of murder, both the person killed and the persons left suffering in consequence. This is alded by a very hurting attitude of bored indifference towards the victims which un- fortunately 13

very widely

shown,

By contrast, the murderer and his feelings are made the centre of attention.

The public is told that the victims of murder are such a minute proportion of the population that they can pro- perly be put out of mind alto- gethy. this argument is fair then, equally, why all the fuss about the feelings of murderer, prison governor, warders, etc? There cannot be more murder-

ers than victims.

I was brought into that tele- vision programme because, after more than 27 years of happy married life.

made a

was

A FLASH

Neither of us

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FLASHBACK TO MARCH 4, 1961-THE DAY AFTER THE "CURIO SHOP MURDER!

been murdered-as mine was

WOULD YOU. BE

IN FAVOUR OF

PSYCHIATRY

FOR KILLERS?

• Seven months ago Britain was shocked by the #curlo shop murder" in which a woman was stabbed to death. Now that woman's husband-Mark Butten, the distinguished séniptar enters the controversy wver the death penalty with a vigorous personal declaration. Millions saw him in last week's con← troversial TV programine on hanging.

by Mark Batten

are invited

we

to

capital could,

Another inconsistency of with deary, statis- abolitionists of obviously emotical manipulations tional origin is their parties which are supposed larised and cxaggerated to show that capital squeamishness about that in punishment is not a strument of death the gallows. deterrent and

For only # small minority nee within their ranks, the true widower by vicious young non-resisters, exhibit a parallel accept that as the brute who was a complete squeamishness about other in end of the whole stranger to both of us.

struments of death. They ex- question.

Even press such a particular horror of the gallows while at

the punishment same time calmly tolerating the by the quotation of existence of other such killer obscurely collected having pre- machines as

tanks, bomber statistics, be made viously had the slightest con- airplanes, submarines, etc., as to appear no deter- tact with crime of any sort, an unfortunate necessity.

is not the whole him by high pressure propa rent, this murder ended our married life

After all, the gallows is

& mutter.

ganda in the near future. simple piece of apparatus de-

The movement for abolition The preservation of the lives is part of a too signed to be used on rare occa of these cruel and vicious men,

widely ad- sions to end the life of one the murderers, to be spent Vocated movement away from motherless 15-year-old daugh man at a time and as painlessly instead, as they will be, in long the established and proved

and suddenly as possible. The abolitionist commonly At the same time it does far from being one of the most of rewards for thrifty and vir periods of imprisonment, is very successful method of supporting civilisation by a simple system vccuses those who favour re- not seem to be noticeably tention of the death penalty of

important the consciences of the majority We are told that murderers tous conduct

issues at stake.

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like

flash of lightning from

a cloudless summer sky.

tex.

It left me also with

rent to murder.

A

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PRESSURE

to

On the other hand, the drama will be much self-pity and much of an occasional execution soon cunning acting loses its effect on such people pathy and help.

to gain aym likely to have short nemories. This would be recognised for The abolitionist movement what it is by a common-sense tends to find many recruits person with both sides of the among the prison-visiting type matter in mind. of person, such as psychiatrists, It is surprising fo chaplains, welfare workers, and many men in probation officers.

the group to Not much which I refer becoming hypno- weight should be given to this, used by the pathus of the sight as it la obviously a quite auto of the man in the cell. They matic reaction to the mainly thus lose all grasp of the over one-sidedness of their expert all picture and foin the raiko

of those with the biased view They see only a man in a cell, those people who seem to have He is naturally cowed by the little sympathy for anyone bat first impact of his environment the criminal, and likewise and the sudden change of his mainly his welfare at heart. prospects.

ences.

Of course, A sense of self- preservation will make him full

of simulated remorse. There

Mark Batten COPYRIGHTE

---(London Zipress Sérülče),

Why bar women from the pulpit?

THE vicar was young

and keen. He had

round.

by

JANE GASKELL

with the fervour and ability to preach?

an almost daring reputa- tion for being “modern.'

"On your behalf, he told us,

Mr George Chit, whom I met "y have refused to countenance i West the visit of Miss Vallant, who Women are more conscientious Kensington,sayar was to have spoken to us on her Their extra sympathy end conversions in the jungles of lessness bring in the siž South America. No woman will

At 43 Mr Chu ever preach from my pulpit." tootler for

the Sa He looked smugly

Army, always in Perhaps the three men in his feminine pulpit-punc

And in the Method) congregation agreed with But his hundred-or-so

although no woman listeners were suddenly blank ordained, there is no faced. And at nine years old

women lay tr was decidedly one of then

ducting services, Recently not the self- satisfied

young vicar of a country parish but the Bishop of Oxford himself. Dr Harry can indeed be

In the Bapti

to sters. And they

Scotland. Pravin

Back 10 the Ch England E

him.

women

to

: So

for Carpenter, forbade a woman. preachers in the

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A spokesmanatyw Information

recently no one ever dream

we maintain a vast number of the ventily a line; so also wrong-doing or what one may speak in St Michael's in and in the complicated machines, manned are prison governors and hang-

call anti-social

conduct.

Sister Margaret Phillips, highest state of men. So let us have less pre-

Everyone can understand this. Congo missionary, is

deaconess readiness, designed for the pur- docupation with the more subile There is nothing effective to of Kidlington Baptist pose of killing thousands

Church, and wantonly to Oxfordshire. people at a time.

of feelings of these admittedly rare replace it,

weaken it is to endanger civi- tions Association wanted her to

The United Na people. Furthermore, in the first

lisation for no gain in any way. case the machine is a poten-

The movement

service, reduce Preach at

"And then, suddenly," tial killer of one cruel, vicious

punishments, of which abolition Mrs Mary Weller, secretary or of a woman wanting to individual, and the second the

of the death penalty is the killer or maimer of thousands The most Is it not preposterous

important matter climax, is inevitably interpreted the association in Oxford, even if she were su quell that of gallant young men this should come from a mem-

good of all is the effect on the morale by less-thoughtful people as a was told we'd have to find Nowadays, women can tak service but that of Hola ber of a Government which re- combatants,

character and of innocent non- of that busy, creative man in condonation of crime by society. someone else,"

munion, so long as the bish Dr Carpenter says he won't concerned things fit” women and chil- the street on whose activities How can they put any other lies most of all on the deter- dren.

license women-lay-readers be- civilisation is necessarily ulti- construction upon it? rent power of what is in effect

Why is no woman fit to that cause it is against the traditions mately based. It is well known The ultimate result is the death penalty at the sum-

duct Holy Communion? Church and cannot be denied by any only people of higher intelli- of the

of England. mit of international relations?

The Christian Church This Government,

that the majority of people in gence and moral consciousness "And if I allowed this In *this country do not want the will be able to see any groundsinstance it would have to be strongholds of of which

a sad choice as one of Mr Butler is a member, claims

come general," he says, effectively to protect us from

Why this preoccupation with abolition of capital punishment. for not indulging in crime.

The effect of the example,

misogy by murder by warfare by the Rus the so-called horror of the gal-

In other words, this man to comparatively rare though we sians or others

lows? by this very

has been exaggerated the street does not want it, and hope it would be, of the strut threat of the death penalty en out of all reasonable proportion, it is going to have a very bad ting, boasting, and sneering of One could continue to com- effect on his morale if it is murderers released into the pose a long catalogue of similar forced on him in spite of lip community after only nime emotionally inspired gross in- service being given to demo years' detention could spread consistencies of the abolitionists, cracy.

iike wildfire, most widely among

masse by H-bomb. Yet in the next breath he claims that the death penalty has no deterrent effect in the case of individual potential killers.

Both cannot be true, Butler,

Mr

DREARY

Turn to the more positive To say he is "not ready for borderline

weak characters side of the matter. We are it" is the cynical phrase of coming in contact with them in bombarded by the abolitionists cranks who hope to force it on their daily liveste und d

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