Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — Hanged Bound to a Chair. [ARTICLE]

Hanged Bound to a Chair.

The agitation against capital punishment which was active in South Africa some time ago has been revived by details, published recently, of a scene at the recent execution of a Kaffir at Pretoria. When the executioner went to the condemned man’s cell the prisoner made fierce resistance and struggled violently all the way to the Scaffold. At the scafford the executioner and his assistants cleverly forced the man into a chair, where he was bound so that he could not move. The man and the Chair were then hanged together.