DIFFICULT PROBLEM.
SENTENCE OF DEATH ON YOUTH. LONDON, Oct. 23. The Home Secretary (Sir John Gilmour) faces a difficult problem arising from a death sentence passed on a 19-year-old youth for the murder of a cinema .manager. ‘ Only last year an Act was passed forbidding execution of anyone under 18. In the present case the jury strongly recommended mercy on the ground that the youth’s father was killed in the war. He lost liis mother when aged 11, and was brought up in an institution.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 281, 25 October 1934, Page 7
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85DIFFICULT PROBLEM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 281, 25 October 1934, Page 7
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