TNAG-0722-FCO40-920-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 114

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It will be obvious that some of the constitutional issues canvassed in my paper about capital punishment in the DOTS apply with equal force to the problem of corporal punishment in the DOTs; "sleeping dog" may suddenly, and in the not too distant future, re-awaken.

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25 April 1978

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