Capital Punishment.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens. – in the House of Commons at on 4 August 1924.

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Mr. DAVIES:

The information in my possession is that the Section of the Act referred to states that Any Justice and Such relatives of the prisoner or other persons as it seems to the Sheriff or the visiting Justices of the prison appropriate to admit within the prison for the purpose may also be present at the execution. That authority has been given to the Sheriff by statute law and he has exercised it.