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8. In one case, in Hong Kong in 1973, The Queen's residual
Prerogative of Mercy was, however, exercised on the advice of
the Secretary of State to reprieve a condemned murderer in
felt able whose favour the Governor had not been prepared to exercise
his own delegated Prerogative. This decision was taken in the
light of very special political circumstances in the United
Kingdom at the time, because the case coincided with parliamentary
discussion on the issue of capital punishment both in itself and
in its application to Northern Ireland.
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