Royal Commission On Capital Punishment 1949-1953: Report
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers (Chairman) Royal Commission on Capital Punishment
Binding: Paperback
Published: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1953
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased and faded cover. Inscription on fep, otherwise clean text
This authoritative government report presents the findings of the Royal Commission appointed in 1949 to examine the scope, application, and administration of the death penalty for murder in Great Britain. Under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers, the Commission conducted an exhaustive review of legal definitions, sentencing practices, and comparative international approaches, while operating under the mandate to assume the retention of capital punishment. The text details the Commission’s attempt to classify degrees of murder, its rejection of that approach as unworkable, and its recommendations for reforming the insanity defence and related procedural safeguards. It records the breadth of evidence considered—from judicial testimony to criminological research—and captures the shift in Gowers’s own stance from cautious support to principled opposition. Issued by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1953, the volume stands as a pivotal document in the mid‑twentieth‑century debate over justice, deterrence, and the moral legitimacy of state‑sanctioned execution.
Author: Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers (Chairman) Royal Commission on Capital Punishment
Binding: Paperback
Published: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1953
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased and faded cover. Inscription on fep, otherwise clean text
This authoritative government report presents the findings of the Royal Commission appointed in 1949 to examine the scope, application, and administration of the death penalty for murder in Great Britain. Under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers, the Commission conducted an exhaustive review of legal definitions, sentencing practices, and comparative international approaches, while operating under the mandate to assume the retention of capital punishment. The text details the Commission’s attempt to classify degrees of murder, its rejection of that approach as unworkable, and its recommendations for reforming the insanity defence and related procedural safeguards. It records the breadth of evidence considered—from judicial testimony to criminological research—and captures the shift in Gowers’s own stance from cautious support to principled opposition. Issued by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1953, the volume stands as a pivotal document in the mid‑twentieth‑century debate over justice, deterrence, and the moral legitimacy of state‑sanctioned execution.