Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — WOULD END DEATH PENALTY [ARTICLE]

WOULD END DEATH PENALTY

Argentinians Urge Change in Law After Executions of Two Murderers. Buenos Aires. —The execution of two confessed murderers here, the first In sixteen years, has caused such a widespread and insistent demand for the abolition of the death penalty in Argentina that two bills have been introduced in congress providing for such abolition. Deputy Bonifacio has presented a bill to the lower house abolishing the death penalty for any and all erimes, and Senator Iberbucca has presented a similar measure In the senate, but extending the abolition to include military offenses.