DOUBLE EXECUTION
CORONER ON DEATH PENALTY 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 request to play “Nearer. My God to Thee.” Shelton, half an hour before he Was hanged, sang, “It Ain’t- Gonna Rain No More.” The coroner, at the subsequent inquest, expressed his “absolute certainty” that the death penalty shortly would be abolished. “The sooner the better,” the coroner added. “We must substitute life servitude, with no hope of remission. We should keep murderers like maneating tigers—behind bars. Thus, potential murderers should be faced with the horrible future of a living death',' which would be a more powerful deterrent than hanging. “Objections on the grounds of the expense are Contemptible. The money wasted on doles would keep all murders safe.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1925, Page 6
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