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Abolishing Capital Punishment

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Ernest Gowers

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Abstract

In 1964, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper dedicated their book A Calendar of Murder: Criminal Homicide in England since 1957 to:

Sir Ernest Gowers, GCB, GBE, Chairman of the Royal Commission into Capital Punishment 1949–1953 whose report ranks as one of the great social documents of our age, and whose recommendations have been — to the country’s detriment — spurned by the legislature.1

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  1. T Morris and L. Blom-Cooper (1964) A Calendar of Murder: Criminal Homicide in England since 1957 (London: Michael Joseph).

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  2. E. A. Cowers (1956) A Life for a Life? The Problem of Capital Punishment (London: Chatto and Windus).

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  3. C. Hollis (1964) The Homicide Act (London: The Trinity Press), p. 1.

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  4. Hollis, p. 9. See also A. Koestler (1994) ‘Reflections on Hanging’, The Trail of the Dinosaur, (2nd edn, London: Vintage), pp. 176–9 (first published by Gollanz in 1956).

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  8. Lord Templewood (1951), The Shadow of the Gallows (London: Victor Gollancz), p. 60.

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  9. This case is covered by Ludovic Kennedy (1971) in Ten Rillington Place (London: Panther Books, 1971). It was also made into a film.

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  10. V. Gollancz (1955) Capital Punishment: the Heart of the Matter (London: Gollancz); A. Koestler ‘Reflections on Hanging’;

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  11. G. Gardiner (1956) Capital Punishment as a Deterrent: and the Alternative (London: Gollancz); and

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  12. Cowers (1956), A Life for a Life?

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  13. J. B. Christoph (1962) Capital Punishment and British Politics: The British Movement to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1945–57 (London: George Allen & Unwin), p. 132.

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  14. B. Wootton (1978) Crime and Penal Policy, p. 139.

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  15. H. L. A. Hart (1957), ‘Murder and the Principles of Punishment: England and the United States’, North Western University Law Review, 52, 433–61, p. 436.

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  1. School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Ann Scott (Adjunct Professor)

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Scott, A. (2009). Abolishing Capital Punishment. In: Ernest Gowers. Understanding Governance series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244306_11

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