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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 12

A curious law concerning capital punishment, prevails in Greece. It enacts that a man, being sentenced to death, 6hall await his execution for two years. Thus for twenty-four miserable months he lives with that terrible vision of doom before his eyes. Eussian soldiers believe that they are more likely to be welcomed to heaven if they are personally clean at the time they are killed. Consequently, before an expected battle they perform their toilet with scrupulous care, dress themselves in clean garments, and put on the best they have.