Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Members of Parliament signed a petition asking King George to sign a pardon for two sheepdogs belonging to an M. P., which were convicted of worrying sheep in Scotland. The dogs had been sentenced to death by a local Police Court. An appeal was made to the Secretary for Scotland, who replied that he could reprieve a man but not a dog. The Lord Advocate advised that only the King could save the dogs. One of the guilty dogs is about to become a mother...
Last week their final hope of escaping prison was felled by the decision of President Coolidge not to pardon them. The trial judge and the District Attorney both opposed a pardon...
...George's proposed treatment of capital offenders thoroughly proves that his theories, as he himself has said, are neither mushy nor maudlin. In segregating them for the term of their natural lives, he eliminates all possibility of pardon or ultimate release. It might be urged that a murderer might very well reform with the passage of time, but in the general run of cases, the risk to the rest of the population which a premature release or an error in judgment would entail, seems to justify at least permanent confinement--where the present penalty is usually death...
...Pardon me," returned that gentleman, "Mr. Shaw is a very intelligent...
...Thomas J. Mooney, wife of the labor leader, convicted of complicity in the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco in 1916, addressed the meeting. A subscription of $1,000 was voted to help ob- tain a pardon for Mooney...