THE DEATH SENTENCE.
METHOD OF PROCEDURE.
When a death sentence is pronounced, it is the duty of the sheriff of the district to make arrangements to carry it out. The sheriff of Auckland is Mr. CI. J. Hewlett, registrar of the Supreme Court. The terms of the Crimes Act provide that the sentence shall not be carried out until the sheriff has received an intimation of the Governor-General's pleasure regarding it. He is required to have the sentence carried out within seven days after receiving notice that the GovernorGenera] will not intervene. The matter is considered by the Executive Council—that is, a meeting of the Cabinet presided over by the Governor-General. It is customary to allow three Sundays to elapse before a death sentence is carried out.
Executions take place within the walls or enclosed yard of a prison, and among thG persons present are the sheriff, the gaoler, officers of the prison, a medical practitioner, any justices and ministers of religion who may desire to attend, and such military and police and other male adult spectators not exceeding ten whom the sheriff thinks fit to admit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 13
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