HC Deb 31 July 1922 vol 157 cc1024-5W
Mrs. WINTRINGHAM

asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, when an execution takes place in Pentonville Prison, which is in the vicinity of a London County Council school, notices are posted upon the fates of the prison both before and after the execution; that these notices cause unwholesome excitement in the neighbourhood, people waiting outside and discussing the subject of the notice till it is removed; and, in view of the fact that children also wait about with the adults until the opening of the school and of the undesirable effects of this, will he consider some other method of notifying the public that a death penalty is about to be imposed upon a prisoner and subsequently that it has been paid?

Mr. SHORTT

The matter has been frequently considered, and I do not see my way to modify the existing Regulations on the subject.