SENTENCE ON MAREO.
EXECUTION NOT LIKELY.
ATTITUDE OF THE COUNCIL. (Ter Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 18. The fact that the abolition of capital punishment has been a plank in the Labour platform for many years and that individual members of the party are opposed to capital punishment, will not be a factor which will enter into the Executive Council’s consideration of the fate of Eric Mareo. The Council will consider the: case on its merits. The Council will take into consideration the unusual circumstances existing in the Mareo household at the time of° the murder,, the possibilities of Mareo being influenced by liquor or drugs, the recommendation to mercy by the jury in the first trial and the confidential report of the presiding Judge in the second trial. It is considered most unlikely that the death penalty will be carried out. Were there no circumstances which the Executive Council could take into consideration, then Cabinet would be faced with the alternative of approving the death sentence or having the law altered to permit its abolition. Because of the circumstance of the Mareo cac, it will not yet he faced with this important issue. So far no application has been made for leave to apply for a new trial.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 237, 20 July 1936, Page 7
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