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PQ
What steps have Her Majesty's Government taken to abolish capital punishment in the Caribbean dependent territories
and Bermuda?
ANSWER
The British Government expects those dependent
territories which elect to remain under the Crown to have a sentencing policy for murder consistent with that which applies in the UK where Parliament has expressed a clear view. Following consultations conducted by our Governors with their dependent territory governments, HM The Queen approved at a meeting of the Privy Council held on 16 April, an Order under which the death penalty for murder in the Caribbean dependent territories is abolished and a sentence of life imprisonment
substituted. The British Government hopes that the Government of Bermuda will decide to follow this example
as soon as possible.
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