THE DEATH SENTENCE
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION Until last night, not since 1920 has the death sentence been pronounced in the Supremo Court in Dunedin. Nino years ago John Sharp was found guilty of the murder of his daughter and was sentenced to death. The sentence w’as later commuted. The next step tow’ards the carrying out of the sentence on William Henry Brauman will be the forwarding of the verdict and the recommendation to mercy by Mr Justice Kennedy to the Executive Council in Wellington. The Executive Council, which is presided over by the Governor-General, will then consider whether the law should take its course. If the Council should decide that the sentence must be carried out, the formal authorisation will be made by the Council to the Sheriff (Mr J. M. Adam) to proceed to make arrangements for the law’ to take its course within seven days. The places of execution in New Zealand are from time to time formally gazetted, and it is understood that if the Executive Council declines to consider the recommendation to mercy or to commute the sentence, the execution will take place in the Dunedin gaolyard. '
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Evening Star, Issue 20321, 1 November 1929, Page 12
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191THE DEATH SENTENCE Evening Star, Issue 20321, 1 November 1929, Page 12
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