WOMEN AND DEATH PENALTY
THREE CONDEMNED TO DIE. BIG ISSUE INVOLVED. LONDON, December 13. Mr. Justice Shearman who tried Bywaters and Mrs. Thompson for the llford murder 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 found guilty of throwing her child from Tower Bridge. The second murdered a woman whom siie alleged had intrigued with her husband.
An appeal is being prepared in Mrs. Thompson's case. It has not been decided whether Bywatcrs will appeal. His counsel is considering the desirability of a petition for reprieve on the ground of his youth.
The present feeling of the law authorities of the Home Ollice it is declared is against a reprieve. It is pointed out that younger prisoners than Bywaters have been hanged and that if Mrs. Thompson is reprieved it will never be possible Uf execute a woman in future however terrible may be her crime. The whole question of capital punishment for women is involved in Mrs. Thompson's fate.—> (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 296, 14 December 1922, Page 5
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