THE DEATH PENALTY
COMMUTED SENTENCES MUST BE SERVED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, February 22. Mr. Holman, explaining the attitude of 'the Cabinet in refusing three petitions for the release of prisoners who had served a portion of their sentences after having death sentences commuted to imprisonment for life, said that if there was a desire to have the death penalty inflicted as rarelv as possible,* Ministers were under an obligation to sec that the sentences of imprisonment were carried out; othonvise the public would insist on the death penalty.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 246, 23 February 1911, Page 5
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89THE DEATH PENALTY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 246, 23 February 1911, Page 5
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