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Re: Peirrepoint
Found this bit interesting on your link, Westender. Only abolished totally in 1999!
Piracy? Arson on a royal dockyard???......
The death penalty was suspended in 1965, but remained for crimes including piracy with violence and arson on a Royal Dockyard.
In January 1999 Home Secretary Jack Straw signed protocol six of the European Convention of Human Rights, formally abolishing the death penalty in the U.K.
Last edited by Caz; 27-08-2008 at 20:10.
Reason: Grammar
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