4 APRIL 1931, Page 2

Then, turning to the Lahore executions, Lord Irwin said that

the decision which rested upon him—that the executions should be carried out—would have been an intolerable responsibility if he had not been guided by definite principles. Those principles prevented him from commuting sentences for purely political considerations. If he had commuted the Lahore sentences, which were deserved, or had even postponed them, 'he would have been justly charged with consenting to unequal justice.