Word: penalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain. The first is that it appears quite possible the baby will be permanently lost to the parents. The second and more certain tragedy is that the country is likely to profit little by the experience. The rank sentimental sensationalism of the press apparently leads only toward more drastic penal legislation. The forces of the law apparently cannot catch and convict under present laws. Of what benefit, therefore, would more drastic laws be? If the press would like to crusade on the problem why not attack some fundamentals...
Into action went Peru's Congress. It passed a bill specifically empowering the President "to commute death sentences imposed on would-be murderers to penal servitude." This was certainly a broad hint. Lest it vex the punctured President, whose military rank last week was that of Lieutenant Colonel, the Congress passed another bill promoting him retroactively to the rank of Colonel, this appointment to date from...
...been the cause of their father's death, that she must be killed. On the day of the murder Peter feigns sick. Fergus loves Mary, but, under his brother's patriarchal command, he takes her out and drowns her. Convicted of murder, he is sentenced to penal servitude for life...
During the last year, over a thousand boys and girls under eighteen years of age were confined with hardened criminals to regular federal penal institutions; over ten per cent of the entrants at the institutions were under twenty years of age. While it may be possible to reform these young delinquents before they are confined to jail, it is virtually impossible to accomplish it once they have been treated like confirmed felons and have been forced to associate for months with men of long criminal records. The crimes of children are now recognized as being the result as much...
Eamon de Valera used to teach mathematics. Teacherish in appearance, called "impractical" by his enemies, he is a Messiah of Freedom. In 1916 he was sentenced to Death for commanding insurgents against King George, but his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, and the General Amnesty of 1917 made him free. Elected to a seat in the London Parliament, he refused to sit, was "elected" by his Irish friends "President" of the "Irish Republic" (illegal) and as such rejected the Treaty of 1921 which, nevertheless, set up the Irish Free State. Later, Mr. de Valera resigned as "President...