DEATH PENALTY BILL
LORDS’ VIEWS DIFFER (11.20 a.m.)' LONDON, April 28. Lord Templewood, a former Home Secretary, differed from most of his colleagues during the House of Lords debate on the Criminal Justice Bill by welcoming the House of Commons decision to suspend the death penalty for murder. He said that most murderers who had the death sentence commuted and had been released made good. A dangerous murderer should be imprisoned for 20 or 25 years. There must be no automatic release for murders. Lord Chief Justice Goddard opposed the suspension. Some cases which came before him, he said, were so horrible that he had feelings of nausea in having to listen to them. Lord Roche, another judge, said the country was against suspension. The House of Lords carried the second reading without division.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22624, 29 April 1948, Page 5
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