HANGING MORE HUMANE.
AGONY OF IMPRISONMENT. LONDON, April 5. The horrors of solitary confinement in European prisons, where murderers haunted by the memory of their crimes have mostly died raving lunatics within 18 months, were vividly portrayed by the Coroner at the inquest on Francis Booker, who was executed at Manchester for the murder of the boy Percy Sharp. The Coroner said that legislators, in view of the inoreasing pressure to abolish hanging, must decide whether it was not really more humane to the condemned man, and less trying to his gaolers, than listening to ceaseless *and piteous raving appeals for release. He wondered what the relatives of murdered persons thought of the growing activities of sentimentalist agitators, who were lavishing more compassion on the perpetrators of atrocious crimes than on their victims, who were almost forgotten.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18690, 22 April 1924, Page 7
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