PLEAS ON DEATH PENALTY
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. The Home Secretary, Major Gwilym Lloyd-George will announce next week the Government’s rejection of all fresh pleas to ban or suspend the death penalty for murder, the “Dailv Mail” said today. After a twenty-month study of the report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, Major LloydGeorge also decided against the commission’s “jury discretion” under which a jury could decide whether the death penalty or a lesser sentence was justified, the “Daily Mail” said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27576, 5 February 1955, Page 7
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