Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — ASK FOR PUBLIC HANGINGS [ARTICLE]

ASK FOR PUBLIC HANGINGS

Illinois Sheriffs in Convention Indorse Action of Sheriff Peters of Chicago. Springfield, 111., Feb. 2T. —lllinois sheriffs want public hangings for the moral effect on other prisoners. This was made clear here when 63 of them in convention indorsed the action of Sheriff Peters of Cook county. They will ask the state codemakers to repeal the law against public hangings.