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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
'On Minister' wis loveline
been estableind
1. An official committee has just cohould continue
aulah - not
CONSIDERED
to consider whether the "Creech Jones" policy should continue to amph Ling those DTs which retain the death penalty, and it is no longer relevant to advise that the "Creech Jones" doctrine should be abrogated. Juhluw
2. In recent years the policy of successive Secretaries of
State regarding capital punishment in the Dependent Territories has followed that established by the former Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Creech Jones, where by HM The Queen would
not be advised to intervene in the non-exercise of the
Prerogative of Mercy by a Colonial Governor, unless there had been an evident miscarriage of justice. Since that time t the death penalty for murder has been abolished in the United Kingdom and is retained as a punishment for murder in only seven of the remaining dependent territories.
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