HANGING PREFERRED
CONVICTED MURDERER ABHORS GAS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 27, 5.5 p.m.) CANON CITY (Colorado), Dec. 26. In the Interest of humaneness the State penitentiary here instituted a lethal gas chamber to supplant hanging as a method of executing the death sentence, but the first victim, a youth convicted of murder objected strenuously to the innovation, and declared: “I would not mind the rope, but this gas, to think of it almost kills me. I don’t want the experiment of gas.” The chamber has been successful in other States and it is not likely that the authorities will return to hanging
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 7
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105HANGING PREFERRED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 7
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