The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious was his conduct.
No ' noble savage ' he, the tasks he prescribes for Jason amount to a death sentence.
The Law of 1945 was clearly, it was held, intended to have a retroactive effect in permitting the death sentence.
The political impotence of the prime minister was plainly evident in the military proceedings against Kramarz, in which Stiirgkh shook hands with the accused and gave evidence in his favour, but without being able to avert the death sentence passed by the military court, though he did at least prevent the execution of the sentence.
Openly proclaiming his adhesion to Luther's doctrine, he was imprisoned for half a year (1520 or 1522) at Dillingen, by order of the bishop of Augsburg; a death sentence was commuted to banishment through the influence of Isabella, wife of Christian II.
