THE DEATH SENTENCE.
CORONER’S CONDEMNATION LONDON, Apr-I 15. There was a double execution at daybreak this morning at Durham Prison The condemned men were Graham (who murdered his wife), and Sheltoi* (who murdered his sweetheart;. The Salvation Army Band responded to Gaham’s request to play •‘Nearer, My God, To Thee.” Shelton, half an hour before he was hanged, sang “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More.” The Coroner, at the subsequent inquest, expressed his “absolute certainty” that the death penalty shortly would be abolished. “The sooner the better,” the Coroner added. “We must substitute life servitude, with no hope of remission. We should keep murderers, like man-eating tigers, behind bars. Thus potential murderers should be faced with the horrible future of a living death, which would be a more powerful deterrent than hanging. Objections on the ground of the expense are contemptible. The money wasted on doles would keep all murderers safe.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19250502.2.25
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 2
Word Count
151THE DEATH SENTENCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 2
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.