Death penalty remit
PA Auckland A remit calling for capital punishment for premeditated murder will be considered at Social Credit’s annual conference in Wellington this month. A member of the party’s Auckland Metropolitan Council, Mr Tim Leitch, said that among remits discussed at a meeting of Auckland’s 22 electorates recently was one calling for capital punishment where murder was premeditated and linked with another crime.
He would not name the electorate which submitted the remit, and said that it went against the party’s general policy, which was to try to analyse why crime occurred. Mr Leitch said that one of the key points of the meeting was an unanimous resolution supporting the efforts of the party’s leader, Mr Bruce Beetham, and deputy leader, Mr Garry Knapp, to have New Zealand and its territorial waters declared a nuclear-free zone. Other matters discussed included social welfare, transport, education and finance.
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Press, 5 August 1983, Page 7
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