Capital Punishment in UK Law
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Patrick Reyes v The Queen
... ... both the protection against subjection to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment under section 7 of the constitution of Belize and the ... Act 1957, but with the addition of an additional category of capital murder expressed in (f). It was because the murders committed by the ... ...
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Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
... ... 5 In earlier times execution for murder, as opposed to other capital offences, followed immediately after conviction. In 1752 An Act for better ... 4, c.30) "more effectually to preserve from an irrecoverable Punishment any Persons who may hereafter be convicted upon erroneous or perjured ... ...
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Watson v The Queen
... ... committed in the circumstances referred to in that subsection is capital murder. Section 2(3) of the Act, as amended, provides that murder not ... persons who would otherwise have been made to suffer capital punishment should be detained and what changes in the existing law and the penal ... ...
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Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor
Fundamental rules of natural justice in the field of criminal law. Controlled drug. Offence of trafficking. Mandatory sentence of death... ... But these are capital cases and their Lordships would be reluctant to dispose finally of the ... guilty of such offence and shall be liable on conviction to the punishment provided for such offence ... (15) Any person who is proved or ... ...
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Hyam v DPP
... ... rendered guilty of murder men and women whose conviction of a capital offence would not be considered acceptable to-day even by the most ... 70 The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1949-1953) in their Report (Cmnd. 8932) said at p. 27 that this was the ... ...
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Boyce et Al v R
... ... that no person shall be subject to "an inhuman or degrading punishment". But section 26 says that no existing law "shall be held to be ... Act 1957 to certain kinds of murder which the Act designated "capital". The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 abolished altogether ... ...
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R (on the application of Anderson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... 1 This appeal concerns the sentencing, punishment and detention of adults convicted of murder in England and Wales and, in ... ] AC 648 , 674 per Lord Diplock; Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1949-53 (1953, Cmd 8932, p 6, para 21); House of Lords Select ... ...
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Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
... ... prohibits the imposition of "cruel and unusual treatment or punishment" (section 5(2)(b)). Their Lordships observe that the fundamental rights ... The Board ruled at pages 34-35 that the aim should be to hear a capital appeal in Jamaica within 12 months of conviction and to complete the ... ...
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Neville Lewis and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Another
... ... person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment" ... 8 By section 25 a person who alleges that "any ... his brother Desmond Taylor and Steve Shaw on four counts of non-capital murder on 27th March 1992 and he was sentenced to death because of the ... ...
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Hinds et Al v The Queen; and Director of Public Prosecutions v Jackson
... ... the preliminary examination into any firearm offence which is a capital offence and any other capital offence alleged to have been committed by a ... was committed makes it one that does not call for a severer punishment than the maximum that the inferior court is empowered to inflict. In this ... ...
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