MERCY KILLER GAINED PAROLE
NEW YORK. When a Massachusetts lawyer, Mr. John Noxon was charged in 1943 with electrocuting his incurably mongoloid baby son newspapers labelled it a mercy killing. But the idea of a mercy killing was anathema to the strongly Roman Catholic community. Mr. Noxon, crippled by infantile paralysis.. was sentenced to death. Friends fought, on, induced the Roman Catholic Governor Maurice Tobin to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, then got the term reduced. Now the tall, stony-faced lawyer has been paroled.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 3
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85MERCY KILLER GAINED PAROLE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 3
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