CAPITAL CRIMES IN N.S.W.
SYDNEY, this dayTim Ciivcrnmcnt i* amending the Crimes Act by reducing the number of vrimes punishable hy death from fourteen to three or four. Tliesc will indmlr only rrinifs vvlicrp life is tnkoji. In murder charges provision is made for a verdict of the first and second dpjrnv. tho first only carrying the death penalty. A hill is also in preparation to fix tho retiring age of judges at 70 —(A. and "S.X.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 142, 15 June 1917, Page 6
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