TNAG-2284-FCO40-3285-Capital-punishment-in-Hong-Kong-1991 — Page 10

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Wednesday, 31 January, 1990

Written No. 165 (17.1.90)

Mr Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for

the Home Department, if he will list the offences for which a person can be sentenced to death by courts in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

MR JOHN PATTEN

The death penalty is still available for offences of

treason, piracy with violence and certain treasonable and

mutinous offences re-enacted under the Armed Forces

Act 1971.

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