NEW MURDER LAW
PROBLEM OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT LONDON. Tuesday. Women are thronging to the public sessions of the Select Committee on Capital Punishment, which is giving serious thought to the problem of altering the law of murder. At today's session the governor or the Maidstone Prison said that from his long experience of murderers he was firmly convinced that many murders were so diabolical and so cunningly planned that the perpetrators certainly should be executed, as they were a menace to any community—even to a prison community. On the other hand, those who committed murder from motives of jealousy or under great emotional stress might well be imprisoned. Tire hanging of women should be abolished, said witness. An enlargement of the legal definition of ’‘manslaughter” might include cases now classed as murders, for which death was the only penalty. Lord Darling said he was convinced that death was a justifiable punishment for wilful murder. Mr. Justice Avorv said the abolition of capital punishment would lead to a disastrous increase in murders. Lord Buckmaster contended that savage punishment did not prevent many murders.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 11
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182NEW MURDER LAW Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 11
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