QUOTE: “I should shrink from the very idea of saying that the
sentence of murder should be life imprisonment in the full sense.”
[Speech in the House
of Lords, 10 July 1956]
AUTHOR: Rayner Goddard,
Baron Goddard (10 April 1877 - 29 May 1971) was Lord Chief Justice of England
and Wales from 1946 to 1958 and known for his strict sentencing and
conservative views. He was nicknamed the 'Tiger' and
"Justice-in-a-jiffy" for his no-nonsense manner. He once dismissed
six appeals in one hour in 1957.
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