Mr Brien O'Lowd 20 Upper
Limerick Ireland
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- 9DEC 1977
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NO. 51
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No
233 4381
MRC 380/1
Lecember 1977
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I have been asked to reply to your recent letter to the Lecretary of itate about the executions in Bermuda.
The administration of Justice in Bermuda is an internal matter proper to the Bermudian Government. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs does not intervene in a particular case of capital punishment unless he has grounds to believe that a serious miscarriage of justice might take place. In the cases of the two convicted murderers, Burrows and Tacklyn, the Secretary of State considered carefully all aspects of the process leading to the final confirmation of the death sentences, but could find no evidence to suggest that a miscarriage of justice had occured.
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