WAR SENTENCES.
COMMUTATIONS AND RELEASES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, Feb. 14. Recently a London magistrate expressed surprise that a prisoner he convicted had been sentenced to death by a courtmartial for cowardice during war time and then released. Inquiries in official circles disclosed that since 1014 89 per cent, of the war death sentences had been commuted. The eases of military prisoners had been reviewed at least three times since the armistice, largely at the initiative of Mr. Churchill with the result that none are being now imprisoned for military offences and only S 3 are undergoing penal servitude, of whom 57 will be released within a year. It is estimated’that 50,000 soldiers, including a number sentenced to death, benefited under the Suspension of Sentences Act.—Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1921, Page 5
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