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On the tube: Lex Lasry QC discusses capital punishment on ABC TV

Thu Oct 11 2007

On Wednesday, 10 October 2007, Lateline featured an interview with Lex Lasry QC regarding the need for the Australian Government to hold a consistent policy towards capital punishment, particularly as it applies in neighbouring Asian countries.

In response to the controversy surrounding a speech by the Labor Party's spokesperson on foreign affairs,�Robert McLelland, Mr Lasry QC noted that tacit support for the execution of convicted terrorists in Indonesia is "completely at odds with Australia's declared position. We don't have the death penalty here in Australia, we haven't had it since the 1970s. We don't execute terrorists. We support, internationally, the abolition of capital punishment."

View the�Lateline web site to download a transcript and a videostream of the interview>

11 October 2007

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