Ministry Net Pressing Compromise Clause on Hangings
(10 a.m.) LONDON, July 23. The Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Edc, in the House of Commons last night, moved that the House should not insist on the Government’s compromise clause on hanging which the House of Lords deleted from the Criminal Justice Bill. He said that if the Commons insisted on the retention of the amended clause the bill would be lost. The Parliamentary Act could not be used to pass the compromise clause into law because in its amended form it was not in the bill when it first left the Commons.
The Government could explore immediately practical means of limiting the death penalty to certain kinds of murder in such a manner as to remove the present objections. The motion was carried by 215 votes to 34.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22698, 24 July 1948, Page 5
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