Tonga Seeks Loan of Hangman
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Hangman
MURDER is so uncommon in Tonga that the Kingdom has suddenly had to start looking for a hangman.
On June 28, a Suva report stated that the Tongan Government was believed to be looking into the pos
sibility of appointing a hangman, but in the meantime, with two executions of convicted murderers approaching, Nukualofa had asked about the feasibility of sending the hangman from Suva to Tonga by plane.
Fiji's hangman, incidentally, is a somewhat inaccessible person who lives away from Suva and journeys? to town when required—which is < seldom.
Tonga’s last execution was in j 1927,