[National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, London.] Printed pamphlet by NCADP Secretary Frank Dawtry: ‘Bulletin No. 26 / Public Opinion and the Death Penalty’.

See Dawtry’s entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is scarce: no copies traced on JISC or WorldCat. 4pp, 4to. Bifolium printed in small type. In fair condition, lightly aged, with creasing and nicking to both leaves at bottom outer edge. Begins: ‘The Home Secretary, in introducing the Criminal Justice Bill to the House of Commons in November last, promised that there should at a later stage be a free vote of the House on an amendment to suspend the death penalty, and said that he had no doubt that discussions on the subject of capital punishment would continue in the press and in meetings throughout the country. That he was right in his forecast has been proved by the articles and very heavy correspondence in many newspapers, by the reports of discussions in many parts of the country, and by the numerous calls we have had for meetings or notes for speakers taking part in meetings and debates. The subject is no longer regarded as one of academic interest, and its full discussion as an issue of immediate politics has been helpful. The results have shown a very substantial growth of opinion in favour of abolition, which must ultimately have some effect on the decision to be made in parliament within the next few weeks.’ Subsections are: ‘Letters to the editor’ (Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, provincial newspapers), ‘Leading articles’, ‘Debate and discussion’, ‘More abolitionist countries’ (Luxemburg, Mexico, Panama, Channel Islands, New Zealand), ‘The Shot Policeman’ (i.e. PC Nathaniel Edgar, shot by Donald George Thomas, 13 February 1948), ‘Oscar Slater’ and ‘Books and Pamphlets’.