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A total of 85 people were executed under New Zealand's capital punishment system while it was in force. An additional five New Zealand soldiers were executed under military regulations in France during World War I, though they subsequently received posthumous pardons under the Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000.
The executions, carried out by firing squad, were not made public at the time. All five were posthumously pardoned on 14 September 2000, when New Zealand's Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act became law. The bill was presented by Mark Peck, Member of Parliament for Invercargill. The vote was 112 for the motion and five against.
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 ...
People executed by New Zealand or New Zealand authorities. ... 20th-century executions by New Zealand (1 C, 5 P) H. People executed by New Zealand by hanging (11 P) N.
The Moriori genocide was the systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, enslavement and cultural annihilation of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu), by invaders from the mainland New Zealand iwi of Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, from November 1835 for a disputed time onward. Siege of Pukerangiora [20]
Prisoners sentenced to death by New Zealand. People who were ultimately executed by New Zealand should be placed in Category:New Zealand executions. For people of New Zealand nationality sentenced to death, see Category:New Zealand prisoners sentenced to death.
This is a list of New Zealand Police officers and non-sworn staff [1] killed in the line of duty.As of 2025, 34 police officers have been killed by criminal act, [2] [3] [4] and about 17 have died from accidental causes, during the execution of duty.
New Zealand Expeditionary Force personnel executed during World War I (2 P) Pages in category "20th-century executions by New Zealand" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.