A DOUBLE EXECUTION

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 523, 2 May 1925, Page 6

A DOUBLE EXECUTION

TWO MURDERERS HANGED CORONER ON DEATH PEN- , ALTY London, April 15. There was a, double execution at daybreak; this morning at Durham prison. The condemned men were Graham, who murdered his wife, and Shelton, who murdered his sweetheart. , The Salvation Army band responded to Graham’s reejuest to play "Nearer My God To Thee. Shelton, half ‘an hour before he was hanged, sang. "It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More. ;V The coroner, at the subsequent inquest, expressed his "absolute certainty’ that the death penalty short.lv would lie abolished. "The sooner the better, the coroner added. "We must substitute life servitude, with no hope of reinission. IVc should keep murderers like .man-eating tigeis —behind bars. Thus, potential murderers should he faced with Hie horrible future of a living death, which would he a more powerful deterrent than hanging. "Objections'on the grounds of expense arc contemptible. Ihc money wasted on doles would keep all murderers safe.”