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.soitam toldo
The Secretary of State appears to be under
the impression that in informing the Executive Council that I did not know of any case in which capital punishment had been carried out on a woman, I meant to imply that there was
a rule to that effect either at home or in the Colony. I was very careful to say that I could express no such definite opinion, for having spent so much of my official life out of England, during which so far as I could remember the question had not arisen, it was impossible for me to express an opinion either I stated however that I believed that in cases of child- way.
-murder women were rarely hung, except in extreme cases; but that I could go no further than this.
As a matter of fact the first criminal case
I was ever concerned in was one of child murder, and the im- -pression that that case left on my mind was that not only for sentimental reasons, but also because" decency forbids" women were never hung. But I should not have put this personal view before the Executive Council, unless I had been definitely asked for my opinion.
I regret that any misapprehension should have arisen as to what my advice was on so important a matter.
(sd.) T. T. Piggott,
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Chambers, 23rd. May, 1908.
Chief Justice.