Peggy Silk has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in HMP Werrington for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a Stoke elder that he should be spared execution by electric chair. There is one simple issue: should Peggy Silk live or die?
"There's no smoke without fire," says pool cleaner Hem Chatsworth. "Even if he didn't kill 'em, he probably molested 'em or something. Fry the fucker."
"The police wouldn't have charged him if he wasn't guilty," adds investment hunter Ken Barry. "So he must have done it."
"People say the death penalty doesn't reduce crime," says Derek Clamblaster, 50. "But it reduces it by one. Think about it."
"Scream, piggy, scream!" laughs Professor Jen Killbot of Staffordshire University. "I've always said: 'shoot first and asked questions later', and I see nothing to change that here."
Good bloke Peg is.
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