LAW MUST TAKE ITS COURSE
NO REPRIEVE FOR TE KAHU A QUESTION IN THE HOUSE With regard to the execution of the Ongaroto murderer, which has been appointed to take place on Monday next, Air, H. E. Holland (Buller) asked the Prime Minister yesterday whether Cabinet’s decision was ;|bsolutely final, and whether it would not be possible- to review the decision with a view to having the sentence commuted to one of imprisonment for life or for a term of yeans. Mr. Holland said that there had been three trials, and that the evidence was wholly circumstantial. The Prime Minister knew, he submitted, that executions did not have a beneficial effect on the community. Mr. Massey replied: The answer 1 have to give the member is that Cabinet has considered certain, petitions that came along asking for the reprieve of the condemned man; and after full and mature consideration—l can say that, seeing that I happened to be present—Cabinet decided that the law must take its course.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 12, 8 October 1921, Page 6
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167LAW MUST TAKE ITS COURSE Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 12, 8 October 1921, Page 6
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