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CONSIDERATION BY EXECUTIVE , COUNCIL. Until Thursday night, not since 1920 has the death sentence been pronounced in the Supreme Court in Dunedin. Nine years ago, John Sharp was found guilty of the murder of his daughter, and was sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted. The next step towards the carrying out of the sentence on William Henry Brauman will be the forwarding of the verdict and the recommendation to mercy by Mr Justice Kennedy to the Executive Council in Wellington. The Executive Council, Avhich is presided over by the Governor-General, will then consider whether the law should take its course. If the Council should decide that the sentence must be carried out, the formal authorisation will be made by the Council to the sheriff (Mr J. M. Adam) to proceed to make arrangements for the law to take its course within seven days. The places of execution in New Zealand are from time to time formally Gazetted, and it is understood that if the Executive Council declines to consider the recommendation to mercy, or to commute the sentence, the execution will take place in the Dunedin Gaol yard.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3075, 5 November 1929, Page 5
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