93. Mr. Vyvyan Adamsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the total number of persons convicted of murder between 1929 and the present day; the number executed; the number reprieved; the average rate of executions per annum; and the number of women executed during that period?
§ The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)During the period from 1st January, 1929, 884 to the present date, 188 persons were convicted of murder, but six of these convictions were quashed on appeal, and one was a person under 18 who was ordered to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure. Of the remaining 181 there were six certified insane after conviction and sent to Broadmoor Asylum and 92 were reprieved. Eighty-three, including three women, were executed. The average number of persons executed during this period was eight per annum.