Law: The New Psychology

The sentencing by Judge John Richard Caverly of Leopold and Loeb to the penitentiary for life is the end, so far as court records are concerned, of what has been called "the greatest murder trial of all times." It has resulted, however, in giving a preferred position before the bar of public opinion to the case against capital punishment. In the past, the subject of capital punishment has been approached, mainly, from what may be called the "sentimental viewpoint." Its opponents have stressed "long lists of mistaken verdicts." Its advocates have...