CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
AN EXECUTIONER'S OPINION. (iTMTF.D PRESS ASSOCIATION— Bi ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, February 21. The "Daily News" snys that Mr Plerpont, a hangman, is expected to give evidence before the Committee on Capital Punishment that he does not favour the abolition of hanging. In an interview he declared: 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 a 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. When he returns from one of them he takos a meal and goes to bed."
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19861, 24 February 1930, Page 11
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