Hanging battle starts
NZPA-Reuter London As Britain’s new Parliament opened yesterday after the June 9 General Election members of the Conservative Party, which won a landslide victory, moved quickly to try to restore hanging. Within minutes of the State opening of Parliament by the Queen, a series of motions was tabled in the House of Commons seeking reintroduction of the death penalty for murder. Capital punishment in Britain was abolished in 1965 and successive attempts in Parliament to restore it have failed. One of the first of the Conservatives to table a new hanging motion, Geoffrey Dickens, said that there seemed to be a fair chance that a vote could be taken before the end of the year. Mr Dickens, a former boxer who is also a magistrate, said in his motion capital punishment should be made available to judges for certain crimes: Murder resulting from terrorism; murder of police and prison officers; murder with firearms during a crime; and murder of children. The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has always voted to retore hanging when the question has come up. Political sources say that many Conservatives elected to Parliament for the first time are likely to support her.
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Press, 24 June 1983, Page 6
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199Hanging battle starts Press, 24 June 1983, Page 6
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