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Mon 11 Nov 2009Death penalty remarks condemned
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has denounced as “deeply misguided and frivolous” a suggestion by the former president of the High Court that the use of the death penalty should be revisited.
The rights watchdog was responding to remarks made by Mr Justice Richard Johnson in which he said the issue of capital punishment for certain kinds of murder, such as those committed during armed robberies, should re-examined.
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