objections to transporting Colonial offenders
to Van Diemen's Land, the
only
other
of
The Australian Colonies to which Convicts are now sent, and that consequently some other secondary punishment must be devised for persons who, like Salvador Lacrase, have rendered themselves
amenable to the highest degree of
punishment, but who
may
be
deemed fit objects for merciful consideration, so far at least as their
lives are concerned.
Lord
you
will doubtless receive from instructions on the
Stanley
general question of secondary punishment, and therefore I only think it necessary to say with regard
to Salvador Lacrase
that
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that when the nature of the secondary
punishment to be established in
for offences of a grave nature is
decided upon, the sentence
of
death
passed upon him should be
commuted.
that
may
be
for such an amount
of
secondary punishment as you
consider commensurate with
the crime
of which he has been
convicted.
The latter part of
the letter
from the Colonial office refers to
4. Mr. Bingass and recorded the opinion entertained in the papers connected with the case
of
Lacrase, as to the necessity of suspending execution in capital cases until
the pleasure of the Crown is
ascertained