DEATH SENTENCES
ON AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. COMMUUTED BY FEDERAL CABINET. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CANBERRA, August 5. The death sentences passed by. a court-martial on two Royal Australian Navy stokers will not be carried out. The Federal Cabinet has decided to have the sentences commuted to imprisonment. The Navy Minister, Mr Makin, issued instructions to suspend the carrying out of the death sentences imposed on two naval ratings for the murder of a fellow seaman. The two convicted men appealed unsuccessfully to the High Court on the ground that the court-martial could not impose the death penalty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1942, Page 5
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96DEATH SENTENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1942, Page 5
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