CINEMA FOR CONVICTS.
To calm criminals on the eve of their execution, two negroes of New Jersey were sent to the electrocution cell while a phonograph played "Lead, Kindly Light," and other religious favourites. Encouraged hy the experiment, the New York authorities sanctioned a comic cinema for two convicts on the eve of their death on February 2. There ar« always plenty of murderers in Sing Sing, New York's penal establishment, and twenty-one are waiting for death at present. It Is found that the men on the eve of execution often lose control, and their shrieks turn the death-house into a screaming mob of fear-crazed Inmates. The idea Is that comic films will relieve the psychological strain, and the criminals will walk to the death cell without disturbing tbe other Inmates of the prison.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 19
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134CINEMA FOR CONVICTS. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 19
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