§ 55. Mr. SANDHAM (for Mr. McGOVERN)asked the Home Secretary the number of persons tried for murder since 1881, and the numbers convicted, reprieved, and hanged?
§ Mr. SHORTDuring the period from 1881 to 1929, inclusive, 3,113 persons were received for trial for murder, of whom 322 were found insane on arraignment, 632 were found guilty but insane, and 1,259 were found guilty and sentenced to death; the remaining 900 were acquitted, or found guilty of a lesser offence, or there was no true bill or no prosecution. Of the 1,259 sentenced to death, 48 were removed to Broadmoor, 696 had sentence executed, 497 had it respited and commuted to penal servitude for life, and the remaining 21 either died in prison while awaiting execution or had conviction
§ quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal, with or without substitution of other verdict and sentence.
§ Mr. BROCKWAYIn view of the report of the Select Committee, is the practice of these executions to be continued?