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Show 22 YEARS UNDER ! DEATH SENTENCE! Jurist's Death Stays Execution of Slayer. Trenton, N. J. For 22 years Archie Herron, seventy-one, lias sat day after day In his cell at the suite prison here under sentence of death but never to be executed. Twelve years ago he had a visitor his son. lie has never had another. In 1908 Herron was convicted of the murder of Rev. Samuel B. D. Pickett, a retired minister, who had caused Ids arrest on a charge of disorderly con duct. The Court of Errors stayed the execution, ex-ecution, pending an appeal, but the conviction was reaffirmed. Supreme Court Justice James J. Bergen resen fenced Herron to die in January, l!)(i'J. After Gov. John Franklin Fort had granted two thirty-day reprieves the execution was set for March 3(J, 1901). But Herron seemed destined to remain re-main alive, for Justice Bergen, after an Inquiry into the convicted mans mental condition, ordered, on June 30, 1909, that the execution be stayed "until further orders." No further orders were forthcoming forthcom-ing and Justice Bergen died himself In 1023. His death removed the last chance of Herron's execution, for the law requires that a man whose execution execu-tion has been stayed must be resentenced resen-tenced by the sentencing Judge. So Herron will sit, pufling his pipe peacefully, until lie dies a natural death. The state cannot touch him. ! |