CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
REINSTATEMENT URGED
With only one dissentient), the annual conference ol the I'edeialion of New Zealand Justice*' Associations. recommended to the Government that capital and corporal punishment be reinstated in the Statute Look. One delegate suggested that tourist guides should carry the slogan: "Come to New Zealand, the murderers' paradi.se —no hanging, no (logging, and prisons with all' the comforts of a home."
A speaker pointed, out that with capital punishment many innocent people might be put to death* but another delegate said that mistakes occurred in all walks of lile and that it was better to make one mistake than allow a hundred guilty persons to go free. The president, Mr H. Yv. Shorts, said that a youth of 17 .sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, would be released at 4'A and lie. felt that the abolition of the death penalty was an inducement to take the risk of murder. Mr Shortt corrected a statement by a delegate that murders had increased since the law was amended. Premeditated murders might have increased, lie said, but murders as a whole had not.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 24, 16 November 1943, Page 6
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183CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 24, 16 November 1943, Page 6
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