DEATH FOR TREASON
PENALTY NOT ABOLISHED MINISTER’S ASSURANCE ' (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “The Government has not considered abolishing the death sentence for treason and has no intention o£ altering the law in that respect,” said the Minister of Justice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, in a written, reply to a question asked in the House of Representatives by Mr. W. J. Broadfoot (Nat., Waitomo), who had asked if it were the intention of the Government to abolish the death sentence for this class of offence. Treason was a serious matter, particularly in wartime, said Mr. Broadloot, and the lives of men on service might be endangered. Mr. Broadfoot, in his question had pointed out that no executions for murder had been carried out in New Zealand since 1935, and he expressed the opinion that it was a pity that such leniency had been extended to all those who had been convicted of murder and had the death sentence imposed since the present Government had come into office.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 1 August 1941, Page 6
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