Punishment for Murder

Part of Orders of the Day — New Clause 1 – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 May 1973.

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Photo of Mr Frank McManus Mr Frank McManus , Fermanagh and South Tyrone 12:00, 14 May 1973

The hon. Member is powerfully explaining certain facts to English Members. Perhaps he would also explain the peculiar fact that, when young Brown was under sentence of death, the minority community to a man joined the majority in seeking his reprieve, but that, now that another young man, who happens to come from the other community, is under sentence of death, not one leader of the majority community, not one organisation, has joined the minority in seeking a reprieve. How does it come about—the hon. Member was right to say that religion comes into this—that, when a Protestant is under sentence of death, the entire population demands a reprieve, but that when a Catholic——