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MOTION
To:-
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THAT THIS HOUSE
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Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
DSR11
Calls upon Her Majesty's Government to introduce legislation to abolish or suspend the death penalty for murder in those dependent territories which still retain it and pending the introduction of such legislation, calls upon the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to review
any sentence of death passed and upheld in a dependent
overseas territory and, in considering what advice to tender to Her Majesty concerning the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, to take account of all the relevant
circumstances.
Dd 108087 400M S&K 1/77
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