Alex Barker, Arthur Beesley, and Henry Mance report for the Financial Times:
Boris Johnson has urged the EU to stop pushing Turkey "into a corner" over the death penalty, in an intervention that stunned fellow ministers still bristling over the British foreign secretary's outspoken warnings over Turkey's EU membership during the Brexit campaign.
An already tense meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels flared up on Monday as Mr Johnson argued that the bloc must avoid lecturing Ankara over potentially introducing capital punishment.
~ Perhaps Johnson rightly admires Turkey's
reflection of her national will, in contrast to
Britain's contempt of hers.
Tightening noose? British views on the death penalty 50yrs since abolition
9 Nov 2015
"the survey began in 1983, when around 75% ruled in favor."
"Opinion poll published last yr [2012] in UK showed 65% in favour
of restoring death penalty,"
"YouGov poll published in 2014, British people “still tend to support”
the reintroduction of the death penalty, by 45-39%.
"Despite its abolition in Britain five decades ago,"
~ rt.com/uk/321342-death-penalty-abolition-anniversary/
~The Canadian government as well betrays a very American "democrat",
i.e. un-democratic, aspect, in forbidding capital punishment.
Across the country, 53% of Canadians support reinstating the death penalty for murder in Canada; 36% are opposed.
"Earlier this year, Canada marked four decades
since the abolition of the death penalty. "
~ biv.com/article/2016/10/survey-respondents-cite-business-case-death-penalt/