By the Associated Press
Raleigh, Nov. 29—Austin Carter of Reidsville, Rockingham County, must die in the electric chair next Tuesday, December 2 for the murder of his wife last Christmas unless Governor Morrison changes from the decision he made today.
Carter was convicted of the crime at the May term of Rockingham County Superior Court and sentenced to be electrocuted on September 26. He then was granted successive respites to November 15 and December 2 so that the governor might review the case.
After hearing an appeal for the man’s life today and after a review of the testimony introduced in Rockingham Superior Court, Mr. Morrison decided late this afternoon “on the present condition of the record” that he saw no grounds for the exercise of executive clemency.
From the front page of the Sunday morning Durham Herald, Nov. 30, 1924
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