Capital Punishment.

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

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Has the hon. Member considered the Section to which I have referred, which says: One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State shall from time to time make such rules and regulations to be observed at the execution a judgment of death upon a prisoner as he may from time to time deem expedient for the purpose, as well as guarding against any abuse of such execution and of giving greater solemnity to the same.