ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
WHAT THE HANGMAN THINKS London, February 21. The “Daily News” says that Pierpont, the hangman, is expected to give evidence before the Committee on Capital Punishment. Pierpont does not favour the abolition of hanging. In an interview, he declared that murderers when reprieved were sentenced to life imprisonment at great expense to the country. They were no good either to themselves or to the community. Any man who commits murder ought to suffer the same penalty as the victim. Pierpont lias been executioner for twenty years. He is a grey-haired, robust sexagenarian who runs a small confectionery shop near Bradford and works at a foundry. His wife pointed out that his chief worry about his job as executioner is that it is not regular. “He never mentions his hanging jobs even to me, and when he returns from one of them he takes a good meal and goes to bed.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 128, 24 February 1930, Page 11
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154ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 128, 24 February 1930, Page 11
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