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MURDERERS' DfiS&tE INNOCENTS EXECUTED? LONDON, April 9. "It is common knowledge that there have been a certain number of cases in which murder has been committed because of a morbid desire to be hanged," said Mr. Ray Calvert, secretary of the Council for the Abolition of. Capital Punishment, when giving evidence to-day before the Parliamentary Committee which is investigating the question of whether the death penalty should be abolished. Mr. Calvert suggested, as part of the punishment of a murderer, that he should contribute to the' .support of his victim's relatives.
The council had no definite proof that innocent men had been hanged, he said, but he proposed to supply the committee privately with a list of executed persons whose guilt was gravely doubted. Barristers and solicitors, he added, had joined the cour.ril because they were convinced that some men whom they had defended on murder charges hail been wrongly convicted and executed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 7
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