Award Himself

And here Chief Blackstock receives a civic service award from Owen Backman, president of the Eagles Club

in Victoria.

Chief Blackstock is the second person in Victoria to be awarded the high honor by the Eagles.

Also in picture are David Essler, past provincial president, and Bill Bridgwood. secretary and past provincial

president.

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Although most lawyers favored the
death penalty, one said there is always
the possibility that new evidence may
be found after a hanging.

“You cannot return that man,” he
said. “And the mental anguish to him
while he waits is extreme cruelty.”

A majority of doctors said they felt
murder was evidence of abnormal be-
havior and murderers and drug
peddlers should receive life imprison-
ment as a maximum, but almost all
workmen opposed this view.

“Tt’s the only way,” said a housewife

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who thought the number of major
crimes would decrease if “a few more
people were punished that way.”

A carpenter put it simply, “They
take a life . . . they should lose their
own.”

Another worker, who urged “no
mercy,” said the murderer knows he is
doing wrong but pleads insanity. Such
cases, he said, should have the benefit
of the opinion of a board of three
doctors working with the court but
independent of it.

“If he gets life,” the worker added,
“He gets time off for good behavior
and he does it again.

“He will cost the country lives and
money all of his life.

A former school teacher favored the
death penalty because “there must be
something in the background that
people fear in order to maintain con-
trol.”

“Tt’s the same as the school teacher
with the strap,” he said.

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Opponents of the death penalty said
it leads to more trouble, in that
murderers know they face hanging
and “might as well kill again.”

Long prison terms were recom-
mended to replace capital punish-
ment.

In London, a hushed House of
Commons listened as Chuter Ede said
“a mistake was made” in the case of
Timothy Evans, 25, hanged for mur-
dering his baby, but also charged with
slaying h's wife.

Five years later, John Reginald
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