(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The death sentence imposed by a court martial two days ago on Chaim Melamed, a Jewish worker charged with Communism, was carried out here today.
The same sentence imposed by the court martial on a non-Jewish worker, Klapenas, was commuted at the last moment to life imprisonment.
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