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Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. "Eichmann and the Problem of Justice," published in the November 21 issue, which raised the problem of capital punishment in the Eichmann case; Coverage of the election campaign in the U.S., by the daily papers; Information on a campaign that has been started by several graduate students at the Harvard University to give support to the four six-year old girls who are pioneering elementary school integration in the deep South.

The article focuses on the capital punishment of crimes in Russia. It stresses the restoration of the death penalty, that was abolished in 1947, as a capital punishment for murder, treason, espionage and sabotage. It notes that the list of capital crimes in Moscow has included graft committed by public officials, assault on policemen and rape. The arrest of Nikolai Kotlyar, alias the Lipstick King who had been operating a hot lipstick syndicate from the basement of his house is outlined.

The article provides information about various books and their publishing. The book "Fish and Fishing in America," by William C. Harris will include monographs and illustrations of over 200 fishes that are caught with hook and line in American waters. D. Appleton & Co. will shortly publish "Five Thousand Miles in a Sledge--Mid-Winter Journey across Siberia," by Lovel F. Gowing. Harper & Bros. announced the novel "Would You Kill Him?," by George Parsons Lathrop, which presents the case against capital punishment. "A Little Journey in the World," by Charles Dudley Warner, is a trenchant satire upon modern social life in America.

Presents several letters to the editor related to political condition of the world. Concerns shown to believers of civil liberties and human rights; Comments on the article concerning the execution of Russian Generals; Criticism of the appointment of the former U.S. President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by the journal "The Nation."

The article reports on the campaign of several pressure groups in Great Britain on the re-enforcement of death penalty in the country. It states that the move has been triggered by the increasing criminal cases in the country after the abolition of the capital punishment. It notes that despite of public pressure, the British government is unlikely to re-implement the death penalty.

The article reports on a protest conducted by several demonstrators against the death sentence given to Luis Jose Monge at the Colorado State Prison in Colorado.

Several jokes are presented on various issues including the location of the Garde Hotel in Hartford, Connecticut, death penalty imposed by General Queipo de Llano on rebels and design of a costume based on books.

The article provides world news briefs. U.S. President John F. Kennedy's tax cut proposals are being criticized by business, labor, and economists for not cutting corporate taxes. Thomas Carlton Wansley, an African American living in Lynchburg, Virginia, was convicted of committing rape by two all-Caucasian juries and has been given the death sentence. The U.S. Senate's Steering Committee is, the article states, reassigning senators to committees based on how they voted during the filibuster.

The article presents moves of legislators and protestors to stop the execution of prisoner Caryl Chessman at San Quentin state prison in San Quentin, California. In the third week of March 1960, California legislature hold a special session to debate the capital punishment and to decide the fate of Caryl Whittier Chessman. Meanwhile, protestors also clamored to save Chessman, while the University of California faculty gathered signatures urging the abolition of capital punishment.

The article focuses on views of criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow. His views on the labor movement, religion, prohibition, capital punishment, and so on have, for a generation and more, been rousing men to denunciations. But in spite of the unconventionality of his ideas, or perhaps because of them, he continues at seventy to hold public interest securely and to add to the flavor and zest of life in the U.S. Recently Attorney General of Tennessee said that man of his ability could have done good if he had aligned himself with the forces of right, instead of aligning himself with that which strikes its poisonous fangs at the bosom of Christianity.

Capital punishment today faces fierce attack in many areas of a world in which the atom has posed a new threat and placed a new premium on human life. In England, an especially vigorous campaign seems destined soon to put a term to the ancient dictum that the scales of justice demand a life. In Canada and in many sections of the United States, notably in New York and California, controversial cases illustrating the case with which the innocent may be convicted have stirred the public and called for sober reflection on the appalling finality of execution.

Presents information on the U.S. government policy in the year 1973. Court actions involving president and vice president of the U.S.; Debates that took place regarding the U.S. military budget; Progress of the movement to abolish capital punishment; Others.

The article focuses on news related to political issues from the U.S., as of September 1885. The desire to secure a little free advertising is the real motive for the suit, which has been brought in the U.S. Circuit Court to test the constitutionality of the Civil-Service Law. The first hanging in Minnesota occurred a fortnight ago. In 1868 the Legislature repealed the old law, which made execution the penalty for murder, and enacted a compromise substitute, which left the jury to decide whether the punishment should be death.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion on militarism in education; Details of recommendations of the Ohio State Bar association; Feedback of a reader on an article discussing capital punishment.

Presents several letters to the editor. Information on the late elections in the U.S.; Information on a woman burnt alive as she was sentenced to death; Information on legal implications of sentencing someone to be burnt alive.

This article focuses on several developments in the U.S. and around the world, as of May 27, 1897. Governor of New York City Frank S. Black has signed a law providing the death penalty for train-wreckers who cause any loss of life. The frequency of this crime throughout the country has become a reproach to the U.S. and it has repeatedly been found that no proper provision had been made for its punishment. Another development focuses on the suggestions that the U.S. Congress should pass a law under which federal officials could take cognizance of train robberies and train wrecking when committed upon roads engaged in interstate commerce.

This article focuses on the capital punishment laws of Connecticut. The state stood at a real cross-roads. Despite the existence of a capital-punishment law, it had been seven years , since Connecticut had put any of its convicted murderers to death. Tenacious lawyers, a succession of governors reluctant to signal an execution, as well as a celebrated, hard-won commutation case had all worked to increase uneasiness about using the waiting electric chair. But by mid-July, just four months after the introduction of the U.S. House Bill 141, William J. Lorain of Rhode Island and two other, who had shared death row with him were put to death in quite rapid succession.

Examines the roles of the British House of Commons and House of Lords in the initiation of the liberalization of the law on abortion and homosexuality as of February 12, 1966. Background on Roy Jenkins who has been put into the British Home Office; Need for Jenkins to defend the British Labour Party on the issue regarding immigration; Effect of Great Britain's abolition of the death penalty on Jenkins.

Presents letters to the editor. Views pertaining to the maintenance of public safety; Opinion on capital punishment; Legal provisions for the capital punishment in the U.S.

Presents a biographical account of Chinese writer Hu Yeh-pin along with atrocities inflicted on the Communists. Fascination for Marxism led to his dismissal from the school where he taught in Tsinan, China; Association of Hu Yeh-pin with the Communists in order to create a new China; Meeting organized by twenty-four communists including five writers in order to bring revolution in China; Arrest of all these communist activists by the British police; Execution of all these activists by the Chinese authorities.

In 1942 the most striking feature of the Spanish situation is still the incapacity of Francisco Franco's government to build even a totalitarian state of the Fascist or Nazi type. The Vichy radio is sending out news, of the death sentence pronounced against Carlos Rubiera, one of the last governors of the province of Madrid in Spain. He has been condemned to death in connection with his participation in a Communist plot. Rubiera could never have been implicated in a Communist plot. Of all the Socialist followers of the former Premier Largo Caballero, Rubiera was undoubtedly one of the most rabid anti-Communists.

The article provides various information from around the world. Three courses of treatment for the throat disease from which the German Crown Prince is suffering, and getting treatment at his private place in San Remo, Italy, have been considered practicable: Laryngotomy, or the total excision of the larynx, a partial excision, with tracheotomy, or another of Mackenzie's internal operations. The Electrical Subway Commission of New York City began on November 15 to use asphalt in the construction of the wireways. On November 11, 1887, four of the Anarchists who were convicted of participating in the Haymarket riot in Chicago, Illinois, on May 4, 1884, in which seven policemen were killed, were hanged in the jail of that city.

Presents several letters to the editor. Campaign launched in Washington to make military drill in state schools; Comment on women and capital punishment made by the Archbishop of York; Attempt of Herr Goring to make ill-treatment of Communists and Jews in Germany as a propaganda.

Six young Communists are held incomunicado without bail in Atlanta for trial on June 19 on charges carrying the death penalty. Their crime was to hold an unemployment meeting of white and black workers and later a protest meeting against the Sherman, Texas lynchings. They are held under an archaic law originally aimed at slave uprisings. In 1833 an act was passed by the Georgia legislature to guard against possible insurrection of slaves and "free persons of color." At the end of the Civil War agitators in the Southern States began raising the question of Negro rights.

The article focuses on the literary works of Adolphe Guilot, a police magistrate of Paris and one of the criminalist. One of the two volumes of "Paris qui souffre," is a curious monograph on the Morgue, the other is a description of the "Prisons and Prisoners of Paris." Guilot is a old Parisian, but he has never entered the Morgue. Behind the splendid cathedral, on a sort of little promontory of the island on which it is built is a low building, it is the Morgue, the temple of suicide. The church is so empty, the Morgue always has visitors. Men and women enter into it, some led by a morbid curiosity, others by the fear and the hope of discovering some relation or friend.