NO COMPROMISE ON DEATH PENALTY BILL
(Roc. 8.30) LONDON. July 23 The Home Secretary, M/ Chuter Ede. in the House of Comriions 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 a compromise clause into law, oecause. in its amended form, it was not in the Bill when it first left the House of Commons.
The Government could explore immediately practicalv 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 votes. __
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Grey River Argus, 24 July 1948, Page 5
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