 Asquith had warned Maxwell that "a large number of executions would […] sow the seeds of lasting trouble in Ireland".After Connolly's execution, Maxwell bowed to pressure and had the other death sentences commuted to penal servitude.Most of the people arrested were subsequently released, however under Regulation 14B of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 1,836 men were interned at internment camps and prisons in England and Wales.