Sentencing Policy (Lord Chancellor's Speech)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 May 1972.

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Perhaps I could draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to that part of the speech in which the Lord Chancellor said quite specifically: I do not wish to dissaude you from exercising and exhibiting the quality of mercy. Excessive severity is almost always counter productive in the administration of justice, since it excites sympathy where reprobation is desirable.