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unfortunate results if the Secretary of State
followed any other course. First it would be
necessary for him to consider fully the facts
of each case and all the considerations which
bore upon it.
but further, and more
important, for the Secretary of State to
intervene would conflict with the plain
intention of the constitutional instruments .....
which set up a better machinery for deciding
these matters than anything the Secretary of
State could do here; and would be contrary to
the common sense of the situation, since the
Governor, knowing of the circumstances is in a
better position to judge whether the Prerogative
of Mercy should be exercised in any particular
case."
3.
Sentences of death have been passed on two convicted
murderers in Bermuda. The local Prerogative of Mercy
Committee has advised that the law should take its course
and the Acting Governor has accepted their advice.
Tacklyn,
one of the condemned men, has applied for special leave to
appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and
х
this has been granted. The appeal will be heard in October
but it is not thought likely to be successful and a petition
to HM The Queen to exercise her residual Prerogative may
therefore be expected. It would then fall to the Secretary
of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to tender
advice to Her Majesty.
× application to appeal
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