CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
QUESTION OF ABOLITION. HANGMAN .NOT IN FAVOUR. # VIEWS EXPRESSED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received February 22, 10.5 a.m. LONDON. Feb. 21. The Daily News says that a hangman named Pierpont is expected to give evidence before the Committee on Capital Punishment to the effect that he does not favour the abolition of hanging. In an interview, the hangman declared : “Murderers when reprieved and sentenced to life imprisonment are a great expense to the country, and are no good either to themselves or to the community. Any man who commits murder ought to suffer the same penalty as the victim.” Pierpont has been an excutioner for twenty years, and is a grey-haired, robust sexagenarian. He runs a small confectionery shop near Bradford and works in a foundry. Hia wife pointed out that the chief worry of his job as executioner was that it was not regular. “He does not mention the hanging jobs, even to me,” she said. When he returns from one of them he takes a good meal and goes to bed.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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176CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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