DEATH PENALTY
ONE YOUTH REPRIEVED,
(Australian Press Associatian).
SYDNEY, Alav 5
The New South Wales Minister of Justice Air Alartin, announced in the. Assembly to-day that the Cabinet had recommended the Executive Council to commute tiie death sentence ‘recorded” on Jones to a sentence o! imprisonment for the term of his natural life.
Mr Martin said that the Government had given the fullest consideration to fresh evidence brought forward on behalf of Jones. It had also obtained an opinion from three King’s Counsellors as to whether the recording of his death sentence was tantamount to a reprieve! One such opinion Avas that the Executive Council could legally and validly proceed either to carry out the death sentence or to commute it. However, in all the surrounding circumstances the Cabinet had decided to recommend the commutation of Jones’s death sentence.
THE OTHER YOUTH
SYDNEY, May o
Regarding the death sentences on the youths, tlie Minister of Justice, Mr Martin, told, the Assembly be had no statement to make in regard to Hickey.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1936, Page 5
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