CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
GRAND JURY URGES REINSTATEMENT (P.A.) NAPIER, November 6. Aii amendment to the law to provide for the reinstatement of capital and corporal punishment in those crimes where.such punishments were previously imposed was urged by the graud juryin the Supreme Court to-day. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, who said lie would send the resolution to the Minister of Justice, commented that the opinion was the more valuable because of its absolute spontaneity. " There was no reference whatever to the matter from the Bench," His Honour said. " There can be no suggestion that the grand jury was influenced in its presentment by any observation. It is all the more valuable on that account."
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Evening Star, Issue 25326, 7 November 1944, Page 2
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114CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Evening Star, Issue 25326, 7 November 1944, Page 2
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