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DSR 1 (Revised Sept 85)

DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

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SECRETARY OF STATE

TYPE: Draft/Final 1 +

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Thank you for your letter of 3 November along with the

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Eight Dependent Territories retain the death penalty for

murder, namely Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands,

Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Montserrat, Pitcairn, and Turks

and Caicos Islands. However since the abolition of the

death penalty for murder in the UK in 1965, executions

have taken place only in Hong Kong (1966), BVI (1972) and

Bermuda (1977). Thus no execution has taken place in a

British DT for twelve years. The most recent instances

of execution for murder in the other DTS in question are

Cayman Islands (1928), Montserrat (1961) and TCI (1946).

No execution for murder has been carried out in Anguilla

or Pitcairn.