GP Lloyd Esq CMG Acting Governor BERMUDA
PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL
HKC 380/
10 August 1977
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
97
1. Many thanks for your letter of 3 August.
I do apologize, I did not realize that you had a Personal series of letters as well as telegrams.
2. The Cabinet has thrown the whole capital punishment business back into the melting pot and has set up a Cabinet Committee of officials, of which I am a member, to examine again the other methods by which the end might be reached. You will by now have seen my telegram no. Personal 76 of 9 August. We are directed to report again to the Cabinet in September and I am hopeful that a final decision will be reached well in advance of Tacklyn's appeal to the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council. I will put before our Committee (which consists of representatives of the Law Offices, the Lord Chancellor's Office, the Home Office, as well as the Cabinet Office and the FCO) the consideration in paragraph 4 of your letter. However, I take, and I think they will take, firmly your point that if the Secretary of State intervenes, the intervention muust take place at the earliest possible stage.
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JAB Stewart
PERSONAL & CONFIDENTI AL
98
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