Capital Punishment
Sir, —I note that at a Supreme Court session in Hamilton a recommendation was made by the grand jury that a Royal Commission should be set up by the Government to review the position regarding capital punishment. •It is a strange inconsistency that will take,a lot of explaining that a Government which abolishes Capital punishment on principle can (1) Make it compulsory for thousands of New Zealand soldiers to go abroad to' kill other soldiers; (2) be party to the death sentence for war criminals. If it is wrong to punish by death a brutal criminal in New Zealand, it is surely just as wrong to punish him by death in another country.
Many mothers feel that the present New Zealand Government shows much more sympathy, with lawbreakers and wasters generally than with their innocent victims. —I am, etc. —NOTA BENE. Masterton, October 24.
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Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 29, 29 October 1945, Page 6
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