U.K. DEATH PENALTY
Commons Motion For Abolition (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. A motion calling for the abolition of capital punishment was tabled in the House of Commons last night, signed by 69 Labour members and one Conservative. The motion expresses “the deepest anxiety and distress” at the anomalies of the Homicide Act “which discriminates between capital and non-capital murder by arbitrary categories which bear no relation to the comparative wickedness of the crime. These anomalies were an abiding offence to the sense of justice and the good sense of the community, the motion said. At present murder in Britain is punishable by death if it is committed in the furtherance of theft, by shooting or explosion, while resisting arrest for a second time, and if the victim is a policeman or prison officer.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28894, 14 May 1959, Page 15
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