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Extract from judicial statistics of returns for the year 1856

Statistics regarding sentences of death, which formed part of the evidence put before the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment.

Included in a portfolio issued to John Bright MP, a member of the Royal Commission, from the archives of the Howard League for Penal Reform; document reference: MSS.16A/6/1

Extract from judicial statistics of returns for the year 1856

Extract from judicial statistics of returns for the year 1856