Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — Comforts for Men Charged With Murder [ARTICLE]

Comforts for Men Charged With Murder

By Agnes Hall

Who comforts the wife murderer? Every day we read of some brutal murder and the next day we read of the notes of sympathy and the flowers sent to the murderer by tender-hearted women. His trial drags on and on until he has been pitied by women from one end of America to the other and finally he is either an acquitted or convicted hero. Women’s influence should be exercised to make a country-wide law that would execute a woman murderer as nearly instanter as would be compatible with justice and with no sympathy whatever shown him.

A mighty few such convictions would have more effect than dozens qi convictions under the present system, where the murderer is followed to court by dozens of women.