ARMY DEATH PENALTY
PROPOSED ABOLITION REJECTED LABOR MOTION DEFEATED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 29. In the House of Commons a Labor proposal to abolish the death penalty in the Army except for treachery was rejected by 259 votes to 134. Mr E. Thurtle (Lab.) said there was nothing more horrible in war than seeing a blindfold man shot by his comrades because bis nerve had failed. What was called cowardice was generally cracking under a tremendous nervous strain. It is utterly unjust to take life for weakness.
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Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 5
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89ARMY DEATH PENALTY Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 5
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