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In Bradlaugh v Gossett Stephen J evidently took the same line as Lord Coleridge. Thus, at page 278 he says: "I think that the House of Commons is not subject to the control of Her Majesty's Courts in it administration of that part of the statute-law which has relation to its own internal proceedings... Many authorities may be cited for this principle [as to which Stephen J cites two as sufficient in the context of his decision]"
Stephen J did indeed briefly refer to the hypothetical case of "an order by the House of Commons to put a member to death or inflict upon him bodily harm" but only observed in this context that "Of such a case it is enough to say ... that it will be time to decide it when it arises".
There is of course a very famous case in which the House of Commons did actually order an execution, not of a member admittedly, but an execution nonetheless - that of Charles I. If I remember my history correctly, the courts of law did not involve themselves in any review of that case.