HANGING ISSUE COMPROMISE: ONLY IN VERY SERIOUS CASES
(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter—topyriKht.) (11.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. Cabinet lias decided on a compromise on the hanging issue and will put the decision before a special Parliamentary Labour Party meeting on Wednesday, says Reuter’s political correspondent.
It is expected that the G< support a, compromise going sor hanging, but retaining it in very 1
ivernment will ask the party to
ic way towards the abolition of iad eases.
The position probably will be that the Home Secretary shall continue to exercise a wide power of reprieve but with the reservation that hanging will be retained for certain types of murder, like killing a policeman and premeditated crimes in which there are no extenuating circumstances.
Reuter says the House of Lords inserted with wholehearted approval a clause in the Criminal Justice Bill abolishing the peers’ privilege in criminal proceedings. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowilt, in moving the clause said: “We shall be treated like everyone else and tried by the same method. If it is good enough for others, it is good enough for us.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22658, 8 June 1948, Page 7
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