'Hanged by the Neck' Penguin Special by Arthur Koestler et al. Book Review by Rerevisionist.

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Review of Jews and Death Penalty (except for murderers of whites) Arthur Koestler: Hanged by the Neck

Researchers into Jewish influences in Britain should have a copy, February 5, 2012

BRITISH BOOK. This is a 1961 'Penguin Special' paperback—originally costing 2 shillings and sixpence. Two Jewish authors (Koestler and Rolph, who was Cecil Rolph Hewitt, 'writer and scriptwriter') with republished material. Also material from the 'Howard League for Penal Reform', Louis Blom-Cooper, 'Dr Terence Morris of the London School of Economics', and others. Unindexed. A long chapter (pp 103-141) lists 123 murderers and convictions from 1949-1960. Quite a few are described as immature, insane, probably unaware of what he was doing, etc, which seems to be regarded as a good excuse for murder. It's not clear how many near murders, undetected murders, etc, or murders overseas and comparative experience, took place in the same time. The whole book is a compendium of how to do bogus social research.

The campaign to abolish capital punishment was led by Jews (Sidney Silverman MP) was another—or, at least, this seems to be the case, although of course this topic is heavily censored. At the time Quintin Hogg/Lord Hailsham ironically commented that only recently Jews had been very keen to kill German leaders. (The BBC has a radio comment about him on its archives—he also explicitly viewed feminism as promoted by Jewish women who'd been to Kibbutzes).
Generally Jews favour death for people/peoples in opposition to Jews. And generally oppose death, and support freeing of prisoners, however violent, who are likely to undermine host societies of Jews.

There are probably many copies of this paperback turning yellow—worth an addition to any Jewish studies library.

Added March 2014: An echo of this style of 'debate' is a TV piece Bullshit! The Death Penalty starring Penn and Teller (2006), at one time a magician double-act. Presented by a bellowing man in the style of traditional US snake oil salesmen, this is a series of non sequiturs, including (after about midway) a Hungarian woman who presumably thinks she's a Jew. It's understandable that 'Jews' - who collectively have arranged more murders per head more people than any other group - should oppose 'the death penalty'. If there's a judicial execution, then 'we are all to blame'; chants of "They say death row, we say hell no"; future research may show why people kill; and killing people is presumably nasty, as with Koestler, are part of their carefully unanalytical process.

NB: there's material in the Occidental Observer website on empirical evidence, and the difficulties of interpreting figures, in the US, on gun laws. They cite 'very flawed research done in the late 1950s by a leftist sociologist named Thorsten Sellin [in] The Death Penalty. American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1959'. The flaws (essentially, many states with the death penalty never used it) were countered in I. Ehrlich. "The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment." American Economic Review, June of 1975. The 'concealed carry' laws were justified by many studies, the latest quoted being H. Dezhbakhsh and J. Shepherd. "The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment," Economic Inquiry, July of 2006.