EXECUTED BUT ALIVE
PRISON OFFICIALS PUZZLED A man who survived his own " execution " for murder has provided prison officials of Tallinn, Esthonia, with an unparalleled puzzle. Esthonian law allows a condemned man to choose his own mode of death. The murderer was offered the choice between shooting and hanging, but he rejected both in favour of poison. A dose certified by medical experts to be fatal was therefore prepared, and the man drank it. But though he fell very ill he did not die. Now, owing to his strong constitution, he is well again. The law does not allow a criminal to be executed twice for the same offence, and the authorities are wondering what to do next.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21450, 25 March 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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