HANGMAN'S VIEWS
BELIEVES IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT EYE FOR AN EYE POLICY United, P. A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Friday. The “Daily News” says that Pierpont, the hangman, is expected to give evidence before the Committee on Capital Punishment that he does not favour the abolition of hanging. When interviewed he said: “Murderers, when reprieved and sentenced to life imprisonment, are a great expense to the country, and no good either to themselves or to the community. Any man who commits murder ought to suffer the same penalty as his victim.”
Pierpont has been an executioner for 20 years, and is a grey-haired, robust sexagenarian. He runs a small confectionery shop near Bradford and works in a foundry. His wife pointed out that the chief worry of his job as executioner was that it was not regular. He does not mention his hanging jobs, even to me,” she said. “When he returns from one of them he takes a good meal and goes to bed.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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166HANGMAN'S VIEWS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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