Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1864-1866 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment was chaired by the Duke of Richmond. It worked from 1864 to 1866 and was in disagreement on abolition. The Commission did not come to agreement on abolition. On most matters, it offered a range of options for legislation. The exception was unanimity of the need for a law to stop public executions and to regulate executions within prisons. A declaration, drafted by Stephen Lushington, was included in the Report: " We] . . . are not prepared to agree to the Resolution respecting private executions." Signed by Stephen Lushington, Wm Ewart, Charles Neate, J Moncreiff, John Bright. This is presumably because they strongly favoured abolition.