The World - News from April 2, 1987
Britain’s House of Commons voted by a wide margin against restoring the death penalty, abolished 18 years ago. The lawmakers voted 342 to 230 to defeat a resolution that would have brought back capital punishment for “evil murders.” It was the seventh failure to reinstate the death penalty since 1969. All parties in the 650-member Commons allowed their members a free vote, without the customary demand to follow a party position.
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