DEATH PENALTY
RETENTION URGED
(United Press Association —By Eleotrn Telegraph—Copyright) t
LONDON, March 12
Expert evidence was given before the Capital Punishment Committee by Doctor Alan Pearson, medical officer at Wandsworth Prison, who has visited thirty condemned men anu witnessed seventeen executions. He said that lie favoured execution, but there should he degrees of murder, with execution for the first degree, which should be carried out both upon men and women, His only dejection to the present system was that the period of waiting was over long.
Walter Middleton, Chief Officer at Pentonville Prison, said that he had met many murderers who appeared to he decent fellows and just as normal and decent as others. He favoured the retention of the death penalty and the reduction of the cruel period of waiting. Drugs, he said, should not be given, but a glass of spirits should be ordered on the day of the execution, which some took, and others refused. He had not seen any murderer, col apse or unable to walk to the scaffold.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1930, Page 3
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