18 FEBRUARY 1955, page 18

Judicial Barbarism

SIR,—The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, after holding sixty-three meetings and hearing 118 Witnesses, most of whom were doctors or judges and other lawyers, recom- mend......

Sir.—your Wholesale Indictments Of Three High And...

have been the last to hold the high office of Home Secre- tary, under the caption of a scurrilous article entitled 'Judicial Barbarism,' are a•disgrace to British journalism.......

Sir, In Your Issue Of February 11 It Is Re-

peatedly stated that in my Christmas broadcast I said that five thermo-nuclear bombs would knock Britain out of a war. There is no such statement in that broadcast.—Yours......

Sm,—as A New Reader To Your Periodical, I Was Very

interested to read you agreed that Mrs. Thompson was wrongly hanged. But, in this case, would you say that the abolition of the death penalty would have in any way helped......

Sir,—amidst All The Arguments That Have Been Advanced For...

against capital pun- ishment, the points that have been ignored by both 'Drips' and 'Drops' seem far more important than all the fervid advocacy that this vexed question has......

Letters To The Editor

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