SENTENCES OF DEATH
Executive Council Decisions (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. February 12. Walter James Bolton, aged 38, will hang for the murder of his wife by poisoning. But Rima Kurariki, who murdered an island woman in the Cook Islands, will have his death sentence commuted to one of life imprisonment. This was the decision of the Executive Council tonight after careful discussion and consideration of every mitigating circumstance in each case. In a statement issued after the prisoners had been informed, Mr Holland said that in the case of Bolton, who was sentenced in the Wanganui Supreme Court on December 6 for the murder of his wife by poisoning, the Executive Council had represented to the Governor-General that it saw no reason to interfere with the rentence. Rima Kurariki was sentenced by the High Court of the Cook Islands on October 20, 1956, for the murder of an island woman called Moeroa.
In this case the Executive Council recommended that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.
The statement said that in each case the Governor-General had been pleased to accept the advice of the Executive Council.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28201, 13 February 1957, Page 12
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