TNAG-0600-FCO40-748-Capital-punishment-in-Dependent-Territories-1977 — Page 125

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

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I attach an outline of a telegram to issue in the Personal series to those Territories which still retain capital punishment to inform that a committee has been set up to examine and report on the retention of the death penalty, and asking Governors for their views on the abolition of the death penalty and the likely local reaction.

J S Jasper

8 August 1977

Hong Kong and General Department K270

233-4069

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