PENALTY FOR TREASON
NO CHANGE INTENDED (S.R.) WELLINGTON. Thursday "The Government has not considered abolishing the death penalty for treason and there is no intention of altering the law in this respect," said the Minister of .Justice, the Hon. 11. G. R. Mason, in the House of Representatives to-dav in reply to a question by Mr. W. .f. Broadfoot (Opposition—Waitoino). in a note to bis question Mr. Broadfoot had said that no executions for murder had been carried out in New Zealand since .He drew attention to the fact that the Chief Justice had stated that death was the penalty for a particular act which might constitute treason, and that people should know the serious nature of offences tuyler the war regulations. Mr. Broadfoot added that treason was a serious matter, especially in wartime. He considered it a pity also that such leniency had been extended to all those who had been convicted of murder and had had the death sentence passed on them since the present Government assumed control.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24032, 1 August 1941, Page 6
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