MAREO CASE
DEATH PENALTY IMPROBABLE The fact that the abolition of capital punishment has been a plank in the Labour Party platform for many years and that individual members of the party are opposed to capital punishment will not be a factor which will enter into the Executive Council’s consideration of the fate of Erie Alareo, the Auckland musician condemned to death for the murder of his" wife. The council will consider the case on its merits. It will take into consideration the unusual circumstances existing in the Mareo household at the time of the murder, the possibilities of Alareo being influenced by liquor or drugs, the recommendation of mercy by the jury in the first trial and the confidential report of the presiding judge in the second trial, states a contemporary. It is considered most unlikely that the death penalty will be carried out. AVere there no circumstances which the Executive Council could take into consideration, then Cabinet would be faced with the alternative of approving the death sentence or having a law altered to permit its abolition. Because of the circumstances of the Alareo case it will not yet be faced with this important issue. So far no application lias been made for leave to apply for a new trial.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1936, Page 4
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212MAREO CASE Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1936, Page 4
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