DEATH BY LOT.
PECULIAR LAW IN BOLIVIA. (Received Tuesday, 7.45 p.m.). LAPAZ (Bolivia), March 14. Fpur illiterate natives found guilty of the murder of General Pando, a former president, in 1917, were condemned to draw lots to determine which should be executed, the remainder being Subject to ten years in prison and three years disciplinary confinement. All appealed to the Supreme Court, which has not yet announced its decision. The sentence is based on a penal code, devised by President Santa Cruz early in the nineteenth century, which was an endeavour to provide against wholesale executions of conspirators, while avoiding the danger of making some selected prisoner a scapegoat. Several other criminals are row awaiting sentence in Bolivia under the same law, which has caused vigorous debate during the past ten years. —(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1927, Page 5
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