HC Deb 27 April 1903 vol 121 cc456-7
MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Government will recommend that the clemency of the Crown be exercised in the case of the five men of the Leinster regiment under sentence of death at Pretoria.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN, Birmingham, W.)

The Governor, in whom is vested the prerogative of mercy, has, I understand, commuted four of the sentences. In the fifth case he will allow the death sentence to be carried out; that is in the case of the man who fired the fatal shot.