CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
POSITION OF WOMEN.
THREE UNDER SENTENCE.
DISCUSSIONS iN ENGLAND. (Pea- Press Association, Copyright.) LONDON, December 12. At the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Shearman sentenced two mo:e women to death, creating a judicialrecord. The jury strongly recommended both women to mercy. Both were removed' from the dock in a fainting condition. The first was found guilty of throwing her child from the Tower Bridge into the Thames, and the second of the murder of a woman who was alleged to- have intrigued with her husband/
Counsel is preparing an appeal in Mrs Thompson’s case. It has not been decided whether .Bywaters will appeal. Counsel is considering the desirability of a petition for his reprieve on the ground of his youth. The present feeling of the law authorities of the Home Office is declared to be against a reprieve.
It is pointed out that younger pri-'* soners than By waters have . been hanged, while if Mrs Thompson is reprieved it will never be possible to execute a woman in future however terrible her crime. The whole question of capital punishment for women is involved in Mrs Thompson’s fate.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9749, 14 December 1922, Page 5
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