HC Deb 29 April 1937 vol 323 c513
16. Mr. E. J. Williams

asked the Home Secretary the number of persons who have died of capital punishment in Wales during 1920 and each year to date?

Sir J. Simon

From 1920 to date, seven persons have been executed in prisons in Wales, namely, one in each of the years 1920, 1921, 1926 and 1931, and three in 1928.

Mr. James Griffiths

Does not the lowness of the figure prove that Wales is the most civilised part of the country?