War Death Sentences.
BRITISH (CLEMENCY. (Received Tis Day, 8.40 a.m.) Loudon, February 14. Recently a London magistrate expressed surprise that a prisoner ne convicted had b*?en sentenced to death by court-martial for cowardice during war time, and then released. Inquiries in official circles disclosed that since 1914 89 per cent of war death sentences have been commuted. All cases of military prisoners have been reviewed at least thrice since the Armistice, largely at the initiative of Mr Churchill, resulting in none being now imprisoned for military offences. lOnly 63 per cent are undergoing penal servitude, of whom 57 will be released -within a year. It is estimated) that 50,000 soldiers, including numbers sentenced to death, have benefited under the Suspension of Sentences Act.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 February 1921, Page 3
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