WAR SENTENCES.
RELEASE OF MILITARY OFFENDERS. 89 PER CENT. ESCAPE FIRING SQUAD. (Received 16, 8.40 a.m.) London, Feb. 14. Recently a London magistrate expressed surprise that a prisoner he convicted had oeen sentenced to death by court-martial for cowardice during wartime and then released. Enquiries in official circles disclosed that since 1914 89 per cent, of war-death sentences had been commuted. The case of military prisoners has been revived at least thrice since the Armistice, largely at the initiative of Mr. Churchill, resulting in none being now imprisoned for military offences. Only sixty-three are undergoing penal servitude, of whom forty-seven will be released within a year. It is estimated that fifty thousand soldiers, including numbers sentenced to death, benefited under the buspension of Sentences Act.— (Reuter.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 53, 16 February 1921, Page 5
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