DEATH PENALTY
ARMY AND AIR FORCE
ABOLITION IN MOST CASES
LIMITED RETENTION
British Official Wireless,
(Received 20th March, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 2Sth March
Modifications in. the regulations regarding tho death penalty in the Army and Air Force, which tho Government will lay before Parliament, arc detailed in the Army and Air Force Annual Bill. It is provided that ihc death penalty shall be abolished for the following offences ou active service and that punishment for them shall be penal servitude: Misbehaving or inducing others to misbehave before the enemy in such; a manner as to show cowardice; without orders from a superior officer leaving a guard, picket, patrol or post; by diseliargii/g £.cearms, drawing swords', beating drums, making signals, using words or by any means whatever intentionally occasioning false alarms in action, on tho march, in tho field, or elsewhere; being a soldier acting as sentinel leaving his post before being regularly relieved. Tho death penalty is retained for. such acts as shameful abandoning or delivering up of inly place or garrison; shameful casting away of ariiis in the presence of the enemy; treachery, or knowingly imperilling on active service the success of His Majesty's Forces.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1930, Page 9
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196DEATH PENALTY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1930, Page 9
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