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regarded as a relevant circumstance that would
justify a policy of invariable commutation of every
death sentence passed in the DOTs that the Governor has
not himself felt able to commute.
16. It follows that the only proper and effective method
of securing the abolition or suspension of the death
penalty for murder in those DOTS under whose' law it is
still maintained is by means of legislation.
17. If legislation to abolish or suspend the death
penalty in the DOTS concerned were pending, this would
provide the Governors with an additional and powerful
ground for commutation, and therefore in practice no
further executions would be likely to take place once
the decision to introduce legislation had been taken.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
20 March 1978
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