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Sunday, January 18, 2009

JG - 1979 conscience vote on hanging - Slim majority kept hangman on payroll

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

1979 conscience vote on hanging - Slim majority kept hangman on payroll

published: Sunday November 23, 2008

Daraine Luton, Staff reporter

Manley, Duncan and Simpson Miller

WHEN THE first conscience vote on the retention of the death penalty was held in 1979, the statute was barely retained.

Read the whole article here.

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