§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the dependencies of the United Kingdom that(a) have legislative provision for and (b) carry out the death penalty. [24875]
§ Mr. Tony LloydAll the Dependent Territories have legislative provision for the death penalty, but, with the exception of Bermuda and St. Helena, only in respect of those offences which remain capital offences in the UK. Like the UK, none carries out the death penalty. In Bermuda, where murder remains a capital offence, the death penalty has not been carried out since 1977. In St. Helena there is still provision for the death penalty for piracy.