§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the dependent territories which(a) carry out the death penalty and (b) allow corporal punishment. [46518]
§ Mr. Tony LloydThe information is as follows
(a) Bermuda is the only Overseas Territory which has retained the death penalty for murder, though it has not been carried out there since 1977.(b) Three Overseas Territories still have provision for judicial corporal punishment on their statute books: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the British Virgin Islands. Judicial Corporal Punishment has actually been used in recent years only in the British Virgin Islands (the last occasion was in 1996).