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Grayling rejects death penalty

Grayling rejects death penalty
Capital punishment should not reintroduced because it cannot be reversed, the Justice Secretary has said.

Chris Grayling told a fringe event at the Conservative party conference hosted by the Prison Reform Trust and National Grid that miscarriages of justice made the practice inappropriate.

“I have never supported capital punishment for one simple reason: that it is irreversible. The truth is that the history of this country is full of stories of miscarriages of justice, where people have been found many years after the event not to be guilty.

"If they've been jailed for life you have opportunity to do something about it. If they've been executed, you haven't," he told the meeting.

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