HC Deb 15 February 1859 vol 152 c400
MR. RICHARDSON

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether orders have been sent to discontinue in the British service the practice of blowing human beings from guns?

LORD STANLEY

I hope that the time has arrived when military executions will cease. At the same time, no orders have been sent out to India with regard to the manner in which capital sentences are to be carried out.