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Death penalty commuted

SYDNEY, FEB. 18. George Speight, who overthrew the government of ethnic Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, in Fiji in a coup, was today sentenced to death by the high court after he pleaded guilty to treason charge, but the punishment was immediately commuted to life term by President, Josefo Iloilo.

Pronouncing the sentence, Justice Michael Scott of the high court in Suva said: ``George Speight, the sentence of the court upon you is that you be taken from the place to a lawful prison and thence to a place of execution and that you there suffer death by hanging and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul''. - PTI

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