TREASON PENALTY.
DEATH SENTENCE REMAINS. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 31. “The Government has not considered abolishing the death sentence for treason, and has no intention of altering law in that respect,” said the Minister of Justice (the Hon. H. G. R.. Mason) in a written reply to a question by Mr W. J. Broadfoot (National, Waitomo), who had asked if* it were the intention of the Government to abolish the death sentence for this class of offence. Treason was a serious matter, particularly in wartime,* said Mr Broadfoot, and the lives of men on service might be endangered. Mr Broadfoot, in his question, had pointed out that no executions for murder had been carried out in New Zealand since 1935, and he expressed the opinion it was a pity that such leniency had been extended to all those who had been convicted of murder and had the death sentence imposed since the present Government had come into office.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 248, 1 August 1941, Page 7
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