HC Deb 06 May 1965 vol 711 c205W
Mr. Crowder

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons convicted of capital murder are now serving sentences of life imprisonment.

Miss Bacon

20; and there are a further 2 life sentence prisoners who were sentenced to death under Section 6 of the Homicide Act, 1957, after being convicted of two or more murders and were subsequently reprieved.