WOMEN MURDERERS.
SHOULD THEY BE EXECUTED? By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 13, 8.35 p.m. London, Dec. 12. Mr. Justice Shearman sentenced two more women to death, creating a judicial record. The jury strongly recommended both to mercy. Both were removed in a fainting condition. The first was sentenced for throwing a child from the Tower Bridge, and the second murdered a woman whom, it was alleged, intrigued with her husband. Counsel is preparing an appeal in Mrs. Thompson’s case. It has not been decided whether By waters will appeal, bur his counsel is considering the desirability of a petition for reprieve on the ground of his youth. ,
The present feeling of the Law authorities at the Home Office is declared to be against a reprieve, it being pointed out that younger prisoners than Bywaters have been hanged, while if Mrs. Thompson is reprieved it will never be possible to execute a woman in future, however terrible the crime. The whole question of capital punishment for women is involved in Mrs. Thompson’s fate.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1922, Page 5
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173WOMEN MURDERERS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1922, Page 5
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