CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT.
VIEWS ON FLOGGING
BY CABLE—PRHS3 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIBHT. (Received Nov. 30, 8.5 a.m..) LONDON, Nov. 29. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor (Viscount Haldane), the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Marquis of Lansdowne, supported flogging. Lord Crewe opposed this, and preferred indeterminate sentences. Lord Lytton objected to flogging and favored branding male and female procurers. Lord Alversion favored flogging, and said he had known criminals to howl even when sentenced to receive it.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5
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86CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5
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