Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1914 — Capital Punishment In Germany. [ARTICLE]

Capital Punishment In Germany.

Although little is heard outside Prussia of capital punishment within the kingdom, the law Is by no means a dead letter. In seron years there have been 98 executions, ten of the condemned being women. Silesia heads the list with 211 executions, folBrandenburg, Posen and, Rhineland. No executions take place in Berlin, the condemned befog taken to the prison at Ploetzensee, in Brandenburg, where they have a standing guillotine.