TNAG-0487-FCO40-552-Review-of-death-sentence-in-Hong-Kong-1974 — Page 35

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MR LARMOUR

SIR D WATSON

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PRIVATE SECRETARY

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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- 4 APR 1974

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In his minute of 29 March Mr McNally has asked for a

paper setting out the Secretary of State's precise responsibilities

and the chain of appeal in British Dependencies in the exercise

of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy in cases of capital punishment;

the practice in independent countries near those dependencies

where the death penalty is retained; and the policies of Common-

wealth countries on the retention of capital punishment.

2. I submit a short background note covering these points; it

also includes a section on the retention of capital punishment

in Dependent, Territories themselves.

3 April 1974

J.S. Champin

J S CHAMPION

Gibraltar and General Department

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