SUSPENSION OPPOSED
MURDER DEATH PENALTY LORD CHANCELLOR'S VIEW ,(11 a.m.) LONDON, April 27. ' The Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowilt, in moving the second reading of the Criminal Justice Bill in the House of Lords today, said he did not favour die suspension of the death penalty out he hoped the House would not lose sight of the bill’s merits in the
debate was adjourned until tomorrow, debate on capital punishment. The " Lord Oaksey, formerly Lord Justice Lawrence, who was the British judge -It the Nuremberg trials opposed the kbolition of the capital penalty for murder. He added, in reference to the Nuremberg trials “that it is going to be difficult for Britons to justify putting to death enemies who committed crimes in the heat of war while at the same time abolishing the death penalty tri’ Britain.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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136SUSPENSION OPPOSED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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