MILITARY PRISONERS
NUMBERS BENEFIT BY' SUSPENSION OF SENTENCES ACT.
London, February 14.
Recently a London Magistrate expressed surprise that a prisoner could be convicted who had been sentenced to death by court-martial for cowardice during the war, and then released. Inquiries in official circles disclosed that since 1914 89 per cent, of the war death sentences had been commuted. The case of military prisoners has been reviewed at least three times since the armistice, largely at the initiative of Mr. Winston Churchill, with the result that none are now imprisoned for military offences, and only 63 are undergoing penal servitude, of whom 57 will ho released within the year. It is estimated that 50,000 soldiers, including numbers who were sentenced to death, have benefited under the Suspension of Sentences Act—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 123, 17 February 1921, Page 5
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130MILITARY PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 123, 17 February 1921, Page 5
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