[kj] OT: UK death penalty/treason

[powens]

Nope. Not since we ratified Protocol 13.

http://www.legislationline.org/?tid=144&jid=60&less=false

john-paul

On 29/02/2008, fluke fluke <fluke1 at live.co.uk> wrote:

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>

> I thought, and still do, that the death Penalty can still be invoked in

> times of war in the U.K .

>    If we are at War , which we currently are, and you commit treason ,

> then you can receive the death penalty

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> From: fatpotanga at gmail.com

> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:24:15 +0000

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: [kj] OT: UK death penalty/treason

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>

> Following on from the comments below, I found this list - some rather

> surprising:

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>    1. treason<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_treason_in_the_United_Kingdom>(until 1998),

>    2. piracy with violence<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_Act_1837>(until 1998),

>    3. causing a fire or explosion in a naval dockyard, ship, magazine

>    or warehouse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson_in_royal_dockyards>(until 1971),

>    4. espionage <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage>[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom#_note-2>(until 1981), and

>    5. certain crimes under the jurisdiction of the armed forces<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Armed_Forces>,

>    such as mutiny <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny> (until 1998).

>    [2]<http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&Year=1955&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&activeTextDocId=2675342&parentActiveTextDocId=2675303&showAllAttributes=1&hideCommentary=0&suppressWarning=0&versionNumber=1>

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>  On 28 Feb 2008, at 23:29, folk devil wrote:

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> Death penalty for murder went in 65, abolished fully in 98.

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> From: dpeace at bigfoot.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:05:23 +0000

> Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke and the U.S.

>

>  No it doesn't.

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> Darren

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> Hungerford, UK

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