Execution By Hanging New Zealand
qy Received Fridav 72.59 Lm. LONDON, Oct. 6. The governors of six English prisons, ; in a memorandttm submitted to the |Royal Commission on Capital Pumsh.|ment today, stated they favoured th-.» present system of exeention by ltang • ing^tvhich they considered expeditious and humane. They were not prepared re offer suggestions f-or an alternative. The govenors added that they felt^exe cution did not brutalise prison offieials. "Dealing with condemned prisoners i's an unpleasant but neeessary duty but no permanent or serious effeet on the average official had been observed At the. actual hour of execution there is sometimes. a respectful quietness antong the prisoners in the shops and a sligbi tension may be sensed bnt these signs are only momentary and soon subside. It more or less resolves itself intovmor- ' bid interest but is not comparable with the euriosity of public erowds which 1 sometimes collect outside prison gates atexecutioft-time,;,-i
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1949, Page 5
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