MODERN TORTURE
CONDEMNED CELL AGONY. • (Sun Special.) LONDON, September 4. Horrified at the change in her husband, Patrick Mahon (the man condemned to death for the murder of Miss Kaye in the bungalow near Eastbourne), Mrs Mahon, writing to The People, says that the long wait before execution is a modern form of torture.
‘(Surely,” she says, “it would be better for a condemned man to be put to death while sleeping, by means of a deadly gas. Those having material, medical, and spiritual charge of the prisoner could fix the time, and thus save the unjustifiable agony which has worn Pat to a shadow.”
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Southland Times, Issue 19347, 12 September 1924, Page 5
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