RE: Human Rights Re: American Attitudes

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 11:11 2-6-01 +0300, Charlie Bell wrote:

>The exceptional case being treason, in Britain.
>
>As I said in a previous post, the Isle of Man still had the death penlty for
>murder (but no means of enforcing it). A few years ago (about 6 or 7, iirc),
>a murderer was sentenced to death on Man, and Royal Lenience was invoked to
>reduce this to a life sentence on Her Majesty's Pleasure.

Last time I heard (some years ago), something similar happens in Belgium. A 
Belgian court can still sentence someone to death, but the criminal 
automatically receives a "Royal Pardon" from the King and has his sentence 
changed to life in prison.


Jeroen

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