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Originally Posted by Natalie_J
One of the main reason the UK got rid of the death penalty was because of frequent miscarriages of justice where a number of innocent people were hung for murders it later turned out they'd had nothing to do with. The case of the Lockerbie Bomber may well turn out to be another miscariage of justice. When the whole prosecution case basically rests on the fact that a man very similar to him bought a pair of trousers in Malta that look quite similar to a pair that may have been in the case with the bomb - and a shopkeeper picks him out of an identity parade nearly a decade later (a shopkeeper who was also allegedly paid off by US intelligence and retired to Australia on the proceeds) it's probably understandable that the authorities were happy for the Scottish goverment to quietly release him on 'compassionate grounds' rather than have egg on their faces when his appeal proved he was most likely innocent.
There's over 60 million people in the UK, and we haven't degraded into civil war yet either - but then we don't hand out firearms to everybody who asks for them either...
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Couldn't have said it better myself, Natalie!
Diana