HC Deb 31 January 1990 vol 166 cc200-1W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the offences for which a person can be sentenced to death by courts in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. John Patten

The death penalty is still available for offences of treason, piracy with violence and certain treasonable and mutinous offences re-enacted under the Armed Forces Act 1971.