MURDER PUNISHMENT
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EXPERTS APPROVE EXECUTION. Wait Too Long.
LONDON, March 12. Expert advice was given before the Capital Punishment Committee by Dr. Alan Parson, medical officer at the Wandsworth prison; who had visited thirty condemned people and witnessed seventeen executions. Dr Parsons said he favoured execution,but there should he degrees of murder, with execution for the first degree, which should be earrjed out in the case of both men and women. His only objection to the present system was that the period of waiting was over long. •" . Walter Middleton, , chief officer at Pentonville, said he had met many murderers who appeared to be decent fellows. just as normal and decent as others. He favoured the retention of the penalty and a reduction of the cruel period of Waiting. Drugs should not he given, hut a glass of spirits ordered on the dav of execution, which some took and others refused. He had not seen a muyderer oollapse or unable to walk to the scaffold.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 36, 14 March 1930, Page 7
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170MURDER PUNISHMENT Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 36, 14 March 1930, Page 7
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