Homicides In A Sentence

Definition of Homicides

• The number of homicides that are punished by lynching exceeds the number punished by due process of law.
• These homicides can, however, be atoned without further bloodshed, if the parties interested will agree to it.
• Alaska is not now, and never has been, a lawless country in the old, Wild Western sense of unpunished homicides and crimes of violence.
• Since, then, homicides have steadily increased during the past hundred years under a law with severe penalties prohibiting them, a prohibitory law has not been and cannot be a remedy for homicide.