Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — To Make Kidnaping a Capital Offense. [ARTICLE]

To Make Kidnaping a Capital Offense.

The Cudahy kidnaping case has stirred up the West. In lowa the next Legislature may amend the law on kidnaping, making the punishment for the crime death. It is probable that in South Dakota similar action will be taken, as many legislators favor the death penalty. Kidnaping is not a crime in that State at present. In North Dakota, where the punishment for the crime is imprisonment for from one to ten years at the court’s discretion, the law will probably be amended, making the penalty death. Similar action seems probable in Wyoming.