"NOT REGTULAK"
AN EXECUTIONER'S JOB
(Beccivcd 22nd February, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 21st February
The "Daily News" says that Pierpout, the hangman, expected to give evidence before the Committee -. on Capital Punishment. He does not favour the abolition of hanging. In an interview, he declared that murderers when reprieved were sentenced to life imprisonment at great expense to the country. They were no good either to themselves or to the community. Any man who commits murder ought to suffer the same penalty as tho victim. Pierpont has been executioner for twenty years. He is a grey-haired, robust sexagenarian who runs a small confectionery shop near Bradford and works at a foundry.
His wife pointed out that his phief worry about his job as executioner is that it is not regular. "He never mentions his hanging jobs even to me, and when he returns from ono of them he takes a good meal aud goes to bed." '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 10
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155"NOT REGTULAK" Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 10
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