MURDERER'S FATE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 3

MURDERER'S FATE

WAITING FO'R EXECUTION. SHORTER TIME' OF SUSPENSE. ' NEW- .YORKi May. 26. ■ Ak the number': prf i;ttHi‘dferers , iifyadting execution ill giftgSirlg (New York S>tat«l T’en'iteJiitijKiry -hfe -nionuted-istead 1 - ily ill rccellt years, .there is a noticeable tendeJlriy : On /tlie .paifciOf ■ the iCpurts ainy thiH State to shorten..the period of «uspen.se between cbrivictsh ! and execution. Tberie: wns-.a-timevilfi or 20 year? ago,..when, condemned;llmen averaged .oire yearly n&ol-itary i confinement .before,. exo-. c-ution. cT.h s period' ivits . gradua.Ky ?&•>. ducccL to..'eight mcßths, but .in, ,rbcpii ; t r .year#: the •,Courts? l;.aye ; shown -a- tendency, to speed up justice. Now, With 28 murderer fi in..the-death colls, they average 'not more' than sixmonths’,..confinement.

'■Since the ■■ exposure by tile Sea bury Commission of political gr: ft arid Coiut irregularities. 1 in’ NewV.Yoi'k Gity,:. Ul'i.r--.dprei'V have- -less- chance* of buy i 'ig it'he'r way to .freedom. '-'-Alb excepT-six'•of The 28 murderers'arm froth New ' YiSfik V.City>'

Only -three- ''Of the--condemned-'' ‘- moilhave their date v.Theyare Aiithdhy-Lope?., '--for killing ir polb emariy' ir and- twd Regimes- for slaying ' two cpmpatriot©.- > TbOy vidll -cLe bn - J’uiio T? j Courtto five or ,six of the. remainder,' ' but ■.eventually' the majority will go -to the electric chair. " ■ 1

~ .'Out-of the 28, ' there is only one 'woman to die. Sh e is Anna Antonia, Who assisted Sam Feraci -and Vincent .Saetta to kill her husband in an insurance plot. They bungled the whole matter badly, did not collect, a penny of insurance, and were convicted a year after their fearful crime.