22 JULY 1955, Page 14

SIR,—Your brilliant attack on the death penalty is unanswerable. There

is probably no MP who would deny that abolition is bound to come before long.

It seems therefore reasonable to suggest that, in the period of delay before MPs have finished reading the report of the Royal Com- mission and educating their constituents in its findings, the Home Secretary should use his power of reprieve as liberally as possible.— Yours faithfully,