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Drawing of Maketū, the first person formally executed in New Zealand. At the time of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 when New Zealand became a British colony, the most current legislation governing capital punishment in England, and henceforth New Zealand, was the Punishment of Offences Act (1837), which had abolished the death penalty for a number of statutory offences, including cattle ...
First person to be judicially executed in New Zealand (although not the first person sentenced to death). Convicted of murdering the family for whom he was working as a farm-hand. 2: Joseph Burns: 17 Jun 1848, Auckland: Convicted of murdering a naval officer Lt Snow and his family at Devonport Naval Base in order to rob them. 3: Maroro: 19 Apr ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
One of the three men charged with murder had an extensive criminal record before the Fashion Island robbery that resulted in the death of a woman from New Zealand.
Life imprisonment is the severest form of punishment in New Zealand since the abolition of the death penalty in 1989. It is the mandatory sentence for treason , the presumptive sentence for murder , [ 16 ] and an optional sentence for terrorism, manslaughter and certain drug-related offences.
On 9 January 2008, 22-year-old Sophie Kate Elliott (born 11 June 1985 [1]) was stabbed to death by ex-boyfriend Clayton Robert Weatherston (born 9 January 1976), in Dunedin, New Zealand. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The crime and trial were covered extensively in the news media, and contributed to the government abolishing the partial defence of ...
New Zealand has not had the death penalty for murder since 1961, and does not extradite criminal suspects to countries where they could face a death sentence. All the New Zealand evidence was translated into Chinese by the New Zealand police for the trial [10] at the Second Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai [11] at which the suspect ...
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.