Ireland Will Move to Outlaw Death Penalty
The government said Thursday that it will introduce legislation to outlaw capital punishment, which has not been carried out in Ireland since 1954.
Abolishing the death penalty was an element of a coalition deal between the Fianna Fail Party and the small Progressive Democrats party that allowed Prime Minister Charles Haughey to form a government after elections last summer.
Current Irish law provides for the death sentence for treason and for the murder of a member of the government, a diplomat, a foreign head of state, or a police or prison officer on duty.
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