Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 3

» MOY TESTIFIES ON DEATH PENALTY, Justice Tells Committee He Has No Fixed Opinion Re- garding Aboiishment. Chief Justice the District Walter 1. McCoy of 1preme Court, who has been a justice here for 12 vears, and Tudge Mary O'Toole of the Municipal Court were the principal witnesses at the hearinz on the bill to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbi committee on_judick unmittee. ‘oy has no fixed ooinfon whetber capital punishmer abolished und told the subcorimittee that in some he believed it £liould be and then again in some par- ticularly heinous and atrocious mu! ders his mind swings back toward a | heliei in capital punishment O"Toole wed a4 ve apinion that capital punishs be s ed and serves no & "Lefore the sub. of the Hous cases 1 phetis nt should ol pur- Datrow Coming Monday. | esentative Clarence J. McLeod, chairman of the subcommlittee oon-i ducting the hearings and sponsor for the bill. announced t Clarence J Darrow, lawyer, and Lewls ser superin readent of Sing Sing, have wired hlm hat they will be present Monday te ¥ vor of his bill. In reply to questions. Justice Mc- Coy said that he lLiad tried a number of murder cases and has never been able to bring himself to say either that he belleves in capital punishment or that thi of punishment which has e He said th, fnz how man been deterred from murder and he told authenticated instance absence of a capital pun one State led a mt his victlm into that State. Representative Houston of Del- aware and Representative Hammer of North Carolina, both of whom are ers with extensive experience in criminal practice, ssed ot length with Justice McCoy capital crimes and the degrees of homi- cides. ‘e was no way of tell- ons ma ve commi g oa of one ell where the nment law rer to en- i Cites Cases in D. C. Justice McCoy said there have been quite a number of verdicts of first- degree murder by jurles in the Dis- rict of Columbia and that in one case the jury had added the death penalty a rape c This imony was gicen to contradict a clalm made by tiembers of the subcommittee that a seldom brings in a verdict of -degree murder when the penalty der the law is capital punishment. it was emphasized that the jury gives the best indication of the sentiments of the country in regard to capital punishment and that usually a jury £ives a wore lenient verdict than the evidence seems to warrant. Justice McCoy pointed out in reply ALL BRANCHES asonable rates Green st IDE ‘Ed.iifi-—’;\ TIOUE, rets, bedroom furniture. fire gat. pj o 31 SECURITY STORAGE CO. 0" Sin AND NDERING OF S Embroidered - Jnene MME" VIBOHD INC. HAND LAU . 1518 Con e North 41 GRAPE VIN shzubbery trimm RELL. 726 10th 3 ALL KINDS FOAUHER tnc. 9840, G_ HARDING CAMP SON: TN YETERARY nvite eligioles b jorn. Address R. 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Upper: ZERA ROGERS. RS. CATHERINE ROGEI id that the wol und mind, and Rog ht his wife was “cruz owever, offered cvidence from physictans that the women no Signs of insanity. counsel told t en wer declired tho! atter the principle behind ment is to protect s repetition of the crime. does not think that a culprit. in p meditating a crime, thinks much | about the kind of punishment, because he is figuring chiefly on how to es- cape any punishment. Experfence in drawing juries has shown that yOounger men are more animously | opposed to capital punishment than | older men. 2 Jury Not Responsible. Justice McCoy also emphasiz i3 y 5 w tha tion of guilt on facts pre individual juryman should be det from serving by consclencious sc Chairman McLeod repeutedly ques- tloned if there wax not sufficient justi ment {f only one innocent p saved from unjust execut Houston explained the numer: guards that ure set up around t accused. Hammer insisted that the cer- of punishment does more to| prevent the commission of crime tha the method or severity of punishm Justice McCoy (n reply to questions said it was very important that the confidence of the people in the courts should be Increased. He spoke feelingly in praise of the | humanitarian work being done at the | § Lorton {nstitution. | Judge O'Toole said that the con-| viction of three youths in New York Btate some 15 years ago had turned her mind very definitely toward u study of capltal punishment and ded she can see no good that it accomplishes, When the question of swift justice in England was being discussed, | Judge O'Toole said that if the United States was as small justice here would be equally swift. 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