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his
a
4.
opinion, former
as it had done on
recasion
A Newspaper purporting to contain a report of the Sentence.
pazeed on
these Prisoners from
Bench was
the
then shown to the thief Justice, and he was acked,
if
that report was a true and faithful account
the
of Fransaction. The Judge replied, that although the words might
not be
exactly
the sains,
the
Report
was in substance correct, and again repeated that he
Accommended the Prisoners to Merey, because his sentence before alluded to, had not been earried out. Further conversation
took place, and I informed the Judge that I considered it was
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his duty to carry out the law,
it to the executive leaving
Government to direct its execution.
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otherwise, as it might see fit + to this the Judge did not scom but to hold that the
to agree, mecutive
was to be bound by his opinion, and if it did not act in conformity thereto, that he was at liberty to pace on Prisoners any sentence that he might
to do and this indeed.
Lee
fit
-
by
Mi
the
these
seems to be borne out sentence that he passed Prisoners, and by the terms in which they
were sentenced.
5. Under there circumstances, the Council came to the conclusion, that it would be incxpedient at present to commute the sentence
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