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File Name	Q24978
Item Title	"Death Penalty for Crime."
Description	Thomas Walker Wallace wrote this piece for his column "Here and There" which was published in the Birmingham Reporter, an African American newspaper. In it he argues against the death penalty. While he concedes that "It seems reasonable that when one man takes the life of his fellowman [sic] he should be deprived of his life" he believes that murder is the only crime that deserves this "revenge." He is especially opposed to capital punishnment in rape cases: "Now, rapists are sentenced to death even upon the unsupported testimony of a woman and in interracial cases the woman may not be of any moral character worthwhile. It is decidedly a mistaken idea of chivalry to condemn men to death for alleged crimes against womanhood. Especially is this true in cases where the testimony is unsupported." Instead of execution, Wallace advocates surgery to sterilize offenders: "Those who know anything of animal husbandry know that a vicious bull is tamed by the process...So that when men show themselves to be incorrigible criminals just call in a skillful surgeon and the future will assume a pleasanter look as far as the criminality of that man is concerned." The article was written not long after the trials of the "Scottsboro Boys."
Date	1931 April 25
Sort by date	1931-04-25
Time Period	1930-1939
Subject	African Americans--Civil rights Criminal justice, Administration of Criminology Punishment
Format	Newspapers
Voyager Number	v377
Collection or Series Title	Birmingham Reporter
Box Number	37.2108
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=377
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Digital Format	240 dpi tiff
Project Name	Alabama History Education Initiative
Digital image reproduction form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
Upload batch	Malone (text) 2010.06-A
Date created	2010-07-27

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