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From: Necro
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:18
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:18
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On 18 Dec 2000 12:44:42 GMT, davidbutteryANTISPAM@x-stream.co.uk (David Buttery) wrote: >Necro wrote on 18 Dec 2000: > >>Although it was abolished for murder in the 1960's, Britain only >>abolished the death penalty for some other crimes (treason during war >>basically) until very recently ISTR. > >Yes (and arson in Her Majesty's dockyards, I believe) The four capital crimes used to be that, treason, murder, and piracy, but i think piracy may've been removed from the statute books a while ago as well. > - I assume because of >the anti-DP provisions of the Council of Europe. I don't imagine it would >ever have been used, though. I suspect that the death penalty only would apply during war anyway
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