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Originally Posted by cazzer
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.
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I suppose that would be in case someone had a go at the Royal Yacht. Once it was decommissioned, in 1997, the pirates could do what they damn-well pleased.
