TNAG-0723-FCO40-921-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 52

I do not thick we need a hard

and fast rule = we

Mr Quantril Mr McLaren

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Action Taken

1. I attach a draft submission and

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enclosures covering the latest developments on capital punishment cases in the DOT's. It is, I think, high time we cut out the William Dixon case in Belize and on a matter

of principle I think we should only include cases when someone has actually been arrested and charged with murder.

must try to judge

Whether a particular

case is liffel to come

to anything. I agree that we can now drop the Dixon case - at least until we frear any more news about the

Ichances off 31 October 1978

his being crested.

Dothany lla

A Clarke

Hong Kong & General Dept

W.ε. Quantill

Thate to essive

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