Rejected petition Reinstate the Death Penalty for Treason

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In 1998 the Labour government passed the Crime and Disorder Act, which abolished the death penalty for treason. There have been over 150 people who would have been executed under the Treason Act but instead are either in prison or free to walk our streets under license.This law should never had been abolished at the very time we required it most and must be reinstalled to protect us from Terrorists and their supporters

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Date submitted 4 August 2011
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