HC Deb 10 July 1940 vol 362 c1174W
Sir J. Mellor

asked the Home Secretary whether, with a view to providing a more adequate deterrent, he will consider introducing legislation to put offences of a treasonable character on the same footing as murder, to the extent that sentence of death automatically follows conviction?

Sir J. Anderson

Provision for this purpose has already been made by Section of the Treachery Act, 1940.