This brought the end of penal transportation to Australia.
Instead, he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to penal transportation for life.
The authorities decided to change his sentence to penal transportation.
The two men were found guilty in October, and sentenced to ten years' penal transportation.
It introduced penal transportation as a punishment for the first time.
By 1834 the rate of penal transportation had been drastically increased to clear out the old hulks.
After then, from 1788 until the end of the penal transportation in 1868, there were approximately 160,000 people entering Australia.
I don't think we will have mass trials, executions and penal transportation again?
Solomon, just 23 at the time, was sentenced to penal transportation, to spend the rest of his days in Australia.
In 1787 penal transportation to Australia began, lasting until 1867.