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NOTES FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES
WHICH TERRITORIES RETAIN DEATH PENALTY?
Seven of our remaining dependent territories retain
the death penalty.
Belize
Bermuda
They are:
Hong Kong
Montserrat
Turks and Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
HAS HMG ASKED TERRITORIES TO RECONSIDER THEIR OWN LEGISLATION?
In 1965, when capital punishment for murder was suspended
in the UK and again in 1970 after it had finally been abolished,
the Dependent Territories Governments were invited to make
similar changes in their own legislation.
declined to do so.
Seven of them have
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