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Sat 11 Nov 2009DPP opposed to death penalty's return
THE DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions, James Hamilton, yesterday expressed his opposition to the death penalty and warned that any move to reintroduce it in Ireland could lead to our isolation from Europe.
Asked about recent comments by the former president of the High Court, Mr Justice Richard Johnson, that the death penalty should be revisited, Mr Hamilton said that he was opposed to it.
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