MERCY EXTENDED TO NATIVES WHO MISSED HANGING
Received Saturday, 10 a.m. LONDON, March 28. The Governor of Gold Coast has informed the Legislative Council that he had used his prerogative of mercy, and had commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences on the two natives not yet executed for ritual murders, reports Reuter's Accra correspondent. The three other natives were hanged on March 24 before notice of appeal could be lodged.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1947, Page 5
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