Assertion: death sentence | /r/HasProperty | commuted to life imprisonment
Facets:
value: under the royal prerogative
type: OTHER
value: automatically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: This was used and cited the most often in cases of convicts who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the royal prerogative.