jan 1, 1957 - The homocide act

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So far as the law of England and Wales is concerned the Homicide Act, 1957, can be divided into two distinct parts. Part I of the Act makes certain reforms in the law of murder whether or not the murder be capital or non-capital. These reforms are important in themselves quite apart from the controversy in relation to the death penalty. Part II of the Act restricts the death penalty as the punishment to be imposed by the courts for the crime of murder to (a) certain kinds of murder defined in section 5 and called capital murder and (b) to murders by a person who has previously been convicted of murder as defined in section 6. For murders not falling within sections 5 and 6 of the Act the sentence “shall be imprisonment for life.”

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