CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
SHOULD IT BE ABOLISHED? HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE [ Australian Press Assn. ] Received Oct. 31, 8.31 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 31. Mr W. F Brown, in the House of Commons, moved that in the opinion 3f the House capital punishment should be abolished. He said that murder decreased in the countries which abolished capital pun.shment. As far back as 1874 a committee of the whole House passed a relolution in favour of the abolition of »apital punishment. Captain Hacking, opposing the morion, said that only one Home Secretary had ever spoken against capital punishment. Without executions there would be from 20 to 30 murderers let loose on the community every year. The Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes said that if the motion was carried it would not carry them further. The Government would be disposed to act if an authoritative recommendation was made by a select committee. Mr 8. Samuel said Ije had been impressed by the Oscar Slater case and there might have been others like it. He moved an amendment to appoint a select committee on the subject. Mr Brown accepted the amendment which was carried without a division.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 260, 1 November 1929, Page 7
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