DOUBLE EXECUTION.
CONTRAST IN MUSICAL TASTE. CORONER’S COMMENTS. LONDON, April 15. Thpro was a double execution ut daybreak, at. Durham prison. The condemned men wero Graham, who murdered his wife, arid Shelton, who murdered his sweetheart. Both died happily.
The Salvation Army band responded to Graham’s request to play “Nearer My God to Thee.” Shelton, half an hour, before ho was hanged, Bang, ‘‘lt Ain't Gonna Rain No More.” The coroner, at the subsequent inquest expressed his “absolute certainty” that the death penalty shortly would be abolished. “The sooner the better,” ho added. “We must substitute life servitude, with no hope of remission. We should keep murderers like man-eating tigers—behind burs. Thus, potential murderers should bo faced with the horrible future of living death, which would be a more powerful deterrent than hanging, “Objections on the grounds of the expense are contemptible. The money wasted on doles would keep all murderers safe.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 124, 29 April 1925, Page 5
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