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Execution No Deterrent.Hammond, March 4.—That the ef-, %ficacy of the death penalty in Indiana as a crime deterrent, a question debated particularly in Lake county when1 , .it furnished one of the two victims for the first electrocution at the MichiganICity prison, is lacking, is the assertion here of persons opposed to capital punishment. As proof they point to this county's crime record since the electrocutions. The record for the last week, conceded to be an abnormal• . * 4 •one, was as follows: Hammond bar-tender shot and killed a woman andv « ,committed suicide; East Chicago man shot and killed his wife and commit--5 • * * .ted suicide; Gary man murdered forhis money; Cedar Lake saloonkeeper' \ . ' •killed by drunken toughs; Gary man attempted to kill his wife with a razor; murderous attack upon a Tolleston xnafrv*
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Westville Indicator
Westville, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 26, 1914
Page 4
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