§ MR. ESSEX (Gloucestershire, Cirencester)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sentences of death were passed in Great Britain during the ten years ending 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, and 1900, 1313 respectively; how many of such sentences were duly carried out; how many commuted to terms of imprisonment; and how many were remitted altogether.
| Period. | Total death sentences. | Number executed. | Commuted to. | Free pardons. | Respited and removed to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. | |||
| Transportation. | Penal servitude. | Imprisonment. | Reformatory detention. | |||||
| 1851–1860 | 584 | 111 | 266 | 180 | 20 | 1 | 4 | — |
| 1861–1870 | 286B | 137 | — | 135 | 4 | — | 6A | 2D |
| 1871–1880 | 283c | 156 | — | 111 | 2 | — | 1 | 12 |
| 1881–1890 | 300 | 158 | — | 113 | 6 | — | 1 | 22 |
| 1891–1900 | 246 | 142 | — | 95 | — | — | — | 9 |
| Notes: A. One conviction quashed by Court for Crown Cases reserved. | ||||||||
| B. Two prisoners under sentence of death committed suicide. | ||||||||
| C. One prisoner under sentence of death committed suicide. | ||||||||
| D. This figure includes one case sent to Bethlehem Hospital. |