22 JULY 1955, Page 14

SIR,—Although 1 agree with you that the decision to hang

Mrs. Ellis was barbarous, I think you are wrong to assume that Home Office officials become coarsened or blasé about such matters, or that Englishmen delight in hanging. What most people think, 1 imagine, is that hanging should be kept for the worst or most dangerous type of murderer.—Yours faithfully,

4 Graf ton Road, Winchester

IL Ft; PELLY