The people of Ireland, in a referendum held 7 June 2001, voted in favour of the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution which allowed references to the death penalty to be removed from the Irish Constitution, as well as a prohibition on the re-introduction of the death penalty. Ireland was one of the first European states to ratify the Protocol, which completely forbids the taking of human life by the state. This Protocol, which entered into force on 1 July 2003, abolishes the death penalty in all circumstances in those states party to it including any execution by the state in time of war or threat of war. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. On, Ireland signed and ratified Protocol No. Mark Kelly is available for interview and further comment. It stands about as much chance of provoking a serious debate on the death penalty as the recent Channel 4 programme, The Execution of Gary Glitter”, Mr Kelly added. This would seem to be a frivolous suggestion by a judge noted for his wit. “As a matter of law, it is deeply misguided for a retired judge to suggest that it is within the realms of possibility that the use of the death penalty in Ireland could be revisited. If Ireland wished to re-introduce the death penalty, it could do so only at the cost of renouncing its membership of the European Union and the Council of Europe.” “The death penalty is unlawful in every European Union and every Council of Europe State. Speaking in response to remarks attributed to the former president of the High Court, ICCL Director Mr Mark Kelly said: It’s to everybody’s credit that, by the end, both sides of the debate will feel that their point has been emphatically made.Ireland’s leading rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has dismissed as “deeply misguided and frivolous”, remarks by a retired judge that the use of the death penalty in Ireland might be “revisited”. “In this drama,” we’re told, “their wish has been granted.”
It only applied to certain categories of murder and crimes such as piracy, treason and espionage, which tend not to give Joe Public any sleepless nights.īut, as Rob Coldstream’s film explains, polls show the majority of UK citizens want the death penalty restored.
Interestingly, before capital punishment was scrapped in 1969, child abuse or rape of any kind were never subject to the death penalty in Britain. Little-known Scottish actor Hilton McRae is superbly convincing as the pop paedophile, delivering an unsettling performance from the moment we first see him being cocky and sarcastic in early police interviews – unaware that he is about to become a historic test case. In this controversial documentary-style drama, another legal precedent is being set as he’s tried in Britain for crimes committed abroad. In reality in Vietnam, charges of child rape were dropped and Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) was convicted of the lesser charge of committing obscene acts with minors. Tonight he faces it again, in a drama set in a fictionalised version of Britain where Parliament has just voted to restore the death penalty. In 2005, Gary Glitter faced a death sentence in Vietnam.
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