§ Sir P. Rawlinsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons in each year from 1958 to 1964 were executed for capital murder; for the same period, how many people were convicted each year of capital murder committed in the course of theft, and capital murder committed by gun shot, respectively; and how many were executed.
§ Sir F. SoskiceThe information is given in the following table:
Year number of persons executed for capital† murder Number of persons convicted of capital murder (the number of these executed is shown in brackets*) who committed murder: In the course or furtherance of theft By shooting In the course of furtherance of theft and by shooting 1958 4 8(5) — — 1959 6† 3(2) 2(2) — 1960 3 7(5) — 1(-) 1961 7 5(2) 3(2) 1(1) 1962 3 2(1) 2(2) — 1963 2 2(2) 2(-) — 1964 (to date) 2 3(2) 2(-) — * Some of these persons were executed in the year following that in which they were convicted. † Includes one person convicted of the capital murder of a police officer by stabbing.