§ MR. WEBB (Waterford, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in the case of the boy James Handley, aged 15, now under sentence of death at Wicklow as "a party to" a murder, he will act upon the precedent for commutation, on the ground of youth, afforded by the case of Constance Kent, formerly convicted of murder and now at liberty?
§ MR. MATTHEWSThe exercise of the prerogative of mercy in Ireland rests with the Lord Lieutenant, to whom any memorial on behalf of a condemned person should be addressed.
§ MR. MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)Perhaps the Chief Secretary will take it into his consideration?
§ MR. JACKSONThe ordinary and proper course is to memorialise the Lord Lieutenant.
MR. MAC NEILLWill the right hon. Gentleman tell me, is the prerogative of mercy presumably exercised by the Lord Lieutenant or the Minister?
§ MR. JACKSONIf the hon. Member will put down the terms of his question I will give him an awswer.