DOUBLE EXECUTION.
CONTRAST IN MUSICAL TASTE. CORONER’S COMM ENTS. LONDON, April 8. There was a double execution at day. break at Durham prison. The condemned men were Graham, who murdered his wife, and Shelton, who murdered his "sweetheart. Both died happily. 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,” lie added. “We must substitute life servitude, with no hope of remission. We should keep murderers- like man-eating tigers —behind bars. Tims, potential murderers should be faced with the horrible future of 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 murderers safe.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 May 1925, Page 7
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