 Unlike other leading mutineers such as Hawes and William Coman -- who played as large or even larger a role than Daly, at least at the outset, but whose sentences were commuted -- James Daly was executed by firing squad for his leading role in the incident following a court martial on 2 November 1920.He was the last member of the British armed forces to be shot for mutiny.In 1970, on the 50th anniversary of the mutiny his body was sent back to Ireland.