DEATH PENALTY IN ENGLAND
London, April 27. The anpeal o'f James Camb against the sentence of death imposed on March 22 for the murder on the high seas of the actress Gay Gibson has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Camb goes into British legal history as the first British murderer to lose an appeal against a death sentence that he knew would not be carried out. Camb was in the condemned cell when the House of Commons suspended the death penalty for murder.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14657, 28 April 1948, Page 3
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86DEATH PENALTY IN ENGLAND Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14657, 28 April 1948, Page 3
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