LORD
CHANCELLOR
CONFIDENTIAL
HOUSE OF LORDS,
SWIA OPW
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other is generally thought to have been involved in those crimes although he was convicted of a quite separate murder. It would be understandable if public opinion in Bermuda thought that this was the case above all others in which the death penalty should be allowed to operate.
Before deciding this difficult question you may wish to have the benefit of a full discussion with your colleagues in DOP. I should be happy to take part in it. I am copying this to the members of the DOP, the Attorney General and Sir John Hunt.
E-J.
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