CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
PROPOSED ABOLITION. A HANGMAN’S OPINION. (United Press (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 21. The Daily News says: Pierpont, the hangman, is expected to give evidence before the committee on capital punishment that ..he does not favour the abolition of hanging. Interviewed, he declared: “ Murderers, when reprieved and sentenced to life imprisonment, are a great expense to the country, and no good either to themselves or to the community. £ny man who commits murder ought to suffer the same penalty as his victim.” Pierpont has been executioner for 20 years, and is a grey-haired, robust sexagenarian. He runs a small' confectioneryshop near Bradford, and works in a foundry. His wife pointed out that the chief worry of his job as executioner was that it was not regular. “He does not mention his hanging jobs, even to me,” she said, “ When be returns from one of them he takes a good meal and goes to bod.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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