THE WAIKINO MURDERER
GOVERNMENT'S LENIENCY PROTEST AGAINST EXECUTIVE COUNCIL'S DECISION [Special to the ‘ Star.’] WELLINGTON, October 1. The decision of the Executive Council to commute the deatli sentence of the Waikino murderer, Douglas Herbert Cartman, has been the subject of criticism on the part of many people in view of the circumstances of the crime. Inquiries made as a result of this expressed opinion reveal the fact that, in addition to it being part of the Government’s policy not to carry out the death sentence, Cartman himself was of subnormal mentality without being legally insane. Those who are concerned with the Government’s leniency in this instance point out that in his summing up of the case Mr Justice Fair said that the evidence indicated that Cartman knew what ho was doing at the time ho did it. In view of this and the horrible brutality of the crime those who have voiced their protest against the decision of the Executive Council feel that the extreme penalty as imposed by the court should be carried out. It is learned, however, that there is no power to alter the decision of the Executive Council.
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Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 4
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192THE WAIKINO MURDERER Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 4
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