Anarchism and Capital Punishment

majority. This drives· him .·back. upon liberty •in iaHthings. For just as/he would object to the reign of a monarch disposed. toadministe~affairs. rationally and equitably simply because he w~samonarch,so. he must. ohjectto the. reign of a major ity,even ,though its administration were his ideal, simply be cause it is a majority. Mr• Pinney>is trying to $erve both Iibertyandauthority, and is making himself ridiculous in the attempt. ANARCHISM. AND\ CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SINCE the/execution of Ke111mler, I have seen it stated .re peatedly in the press, and especially in the reform press,. and even in the Anarchistic press, that that execution was a mur der. IhaV'ealso.seenit stated that capital punishment is murder in its -worst form. .I should like to know UpOl1 what principle of hum"n society these .assertions are based and justified. If they are based on the principle that punishment inflicted by.acompulsorY.institution which manufactures the criminals is worse than the· crime punished, I· can ·understand •. them and in some degree sympathize 'with them. .But in tnat. case I cannot see why capita/punishment should besingled out .for emphatic and exceptiollal. denunciation. The. same objection applies as clearly!to punishment that simply takes·away liberty as to •punishmept. tJtat .takes ·aw"y'.. life.