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Push for constitutional change on five-year stricture on hanging

November 18, 2008

THE Government, with the support of the Opposition, will pursue a constitutional change to circumvent the five-year stricture on hanging convicts, imposed by the United Kingdom-based Privy Council in 1994, if members of parliament vote for the death penalty this week....

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Author: Balford Henry
Source: Jamaica Observer

 

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