Capital Punishment

It was a [dark:disk] autumn night. The old banker was [pacing:coming] from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation. They talked [among:about] other things of capital punishment. The guests, among them not a few scholars and journalists, for the most part, disapproved of capital punishment. They found it obsolete as a [means:source] of punishment, unfitted to a Christian State and immoral. Some of them thought that [capital:high] punishment should be replaced universally by life-imprisonment.