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Barry George Not Guilty



... it will be up to a jury to decide guilty or not guilty as always, but it will be up to the judge to decide whether a death sentence will follow and this will depend on how completely satisfied he is with the verdict. He doesn't have to authorise the death sentence you know he can give life imprisonment if he wants to ...
That's not how the death penalty has ever been applied in England and Wales.

The trial was always conducted on the basis that the charge was the capital offence of murder. A guilty verdict meant that the judge was REQUIRED to pass the death sentence.

The Home Secretary had powers to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, but that decision was never based on a lack of satisfaction about the verdict. Then, as now, if the Home Secretary has doubts about the verdict, the requirement is either to acquit or secure a re-trial.
 




El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
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Jul 5, 2003
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Pattknull med Haksprut
Whilst I disagree with his decision not to play Garry Nelson in the 1991 Play-off final, I don't think he should have been locked up for life as a result. Signing Mark Farrington however was a HEINOUS crime.
 


steward 433

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Nov 4, 2007
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United Kingdom last death penaltys

The last execution on the Isle of Man took place in 1872. Nevertheless, capital punishment was not formally abolished by Tynwald (the island's parliament) until 1993.[14] Five persons were sentenced to death (for murder) on the Isle of Man between 1973 and 1992, although all sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The last person to be sentenced to death in the UK or its dependancies was Anthony Teare, who was convicted at the Manx Court of General Gaol Delivery in Douglas in 1992; he was subsequently retried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994.[15] In 2004 the 13th Protocol was adopted,[16] with an effective date of 1 November 2006.[17]

Thought it was far earlier than that mid 70's??
 




The UK later (10 October 2003; effective from 1 February 2004[7]) acceded to the 13th Protocol, which prohibits the death penalty under all circumstances,[8] so that the UK may no longer legislate to restore the death penalty while it is subject to the Convention.
And the European Convention on Human Rights is NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the European Union.

The Convention dates from 1950 - six years before ANY European nation joined the Common Market and more than twenty years before the UK joined.
 




United Kingdom last death penaltys

The last execution on the Isle of Man took place in 1872. Nevertheless, capital punishment was not formally abolished by Tynwald (the island's parliament) until 1993.[14] Five persons were sentenced to death (for murder) on the Isle of Man between 1973 and 1992, although all sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The last person to be sentenced to death in the UK or its dependancies was Anthony Teare, who was convicted at the Manx Court of General Gaol Delivery in Douglas in 1992; he was subsequently retried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994.[15] In 2004 the 13th Protocol was adopted,[16] with an effective date of 1 November 2006.[17]

Thought it was far earlier than that mid 70's??
The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom. It is a self-governing Crown Dependency.
 












Kaiser_Soze

Who is Kaiser Soze??
Apr 14, 2008
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He never should have been convicted-he doesnt have the intelligence or abilty to commit a murder and evade the police for a year. A lot of people are blaming the police but the firearms evidence would have been found by the Forensic Science Service and court room evidence would have been given by a scientist from the FSS. The police would have had no involvement in that-its similar the Angela Canning cot death case, expert evidence which was for all intents and purposes wrong.
 












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