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And in the UK this was codified by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act in 1984 which was a reaction to some pretty extreme cases of police abuse and malpractice in the 1970s. Like, police knowingly covering up evidence which proved that people in prison with life sentences were innocent. So it's a good thing that now interviews and taped (audio & video) and available to both sides but it only came about through a rare moment of political clarity.

Rich.

despite the fact that in Britain the defendent will assuredly receive a fair trial. . .

Terrorism: Ah, the catch all for someone who's doing something we don't like.
Like bombing the Underground?

No, like these people, or the Birmingham 6

Illegal narcotics: Likewise, the CIA and M16 are great at stopping illegal narcotics, they're so good that the street price has been dropping steadily.

Judging by the lack of factual objectivity in your post, and your knowledge on the street prices of narcotics, I think now would be a good time for you to check-in to a rehab facility?

Well, I didn't expect complete Idiots... lets ask the BBC again.

We're never going to get straight answers from nominees in the US judicial system, but it would be interesting to know how nominees would have handled the cases of Derek Bentley, Carol Hanson or other such cases of political convictions or other malpractices. Why these cases? They were in the UK, after all. That is precisely why. The cases are from a country similar enough that knowing the answers would tell us a lot, but different enough that the nominee is less likely to feel pressure by one American lobby group or another. No candidate sane enough to qualify is likely to be insane enough to comment on an issue likely to cause a pressure group to block the nomination, which means questions about issues hot within the US are a non-starter when it comes to finding anything out.

So ask questions that'll get you the information you want, but in a way that is unlikely to trigger a political third-world war against the nominee.

We're never going to get straight answers from nominees in the US judicial system, but it would be interesting to know how nominees would have handled the cases of Derek Bentley, Carol Hanson or other such cases of political convictions or other malpractices. Why these cases? They were in the UK, after all. That is precisely why. The cases are from a country similar enough that knowing the answers would tell us a lot, but different enough that the nominee is less likely to feel pressure by one American lobby group or another. No candidate sane enough to qualify is likely to be insane enough to comment on an issue likely to cause a pressure group to block the nomination, which means questions about issues hot within the US are a non-starter when it comes to finding anything out.

So ask questions that'll get you the information you want, but in a way that is unlikely to trigger a political third-world war against the nominee.

We're never going to get straight answers from nominees in the US judicial system, but it would be interesting to know how nominees would have handled the cases of Derek Bentley, Carol Hanson or other such cases of political convictions or other malpractices. Why these cases? They were in the UK, after all. That is precisely why. The cases are from a country similar enough that knowing the answers would tell us a lot, but different enough that the nominee is less likely to feel pressure by one American lobby group or another. No candidate sane enough to qualify is likely to be insane enough to comment on an issue likely to cause a pressure group to block the nomination, which means questions about issues hot within the US are a non-starter when it comes to finding anything out.

So ask questions that'll get you the information you want, but in a way that is unlikely to trigger a political third-world war against the nominee.

We're never going to get straight answers from nominees in the US judicial system, but it would be interesting to know how nominees would have handled the cases of Derek Bentley, Carol Hanson or other such cases of political convictions or other malpractices. Why these cases? They were in the UK, after all. That is precisely why. The cases are from a country similar enough that knowing the answers would tell us a lot, but different enough that the nominee is less likely to feel pressure by one American lobby group or another. No candidate sane enough to qualify is likely to be insane enough to comment on an issue likely to cause a pressure group to block the nomination, which means questions about issues hot within the US are a non-starter when it comes to finding anything out.

So ask questions that'll get you the information you want, but in a way that is unlikely to trigger a political third-world war against the nominee.

We're never going to get straight answers from nominees in the US judicial system, but it would be interesting to know how nominees would have handled the cases of Derek Bentley, Carol Hanson or other such cases of political convictions or other malpractices. Why these cases? They were in the UK, after all. That is precisely why. The cases are from a country similar enough that knowing the answers would tell us a lot, but different enough that the nominee is less likely to feel pressure by one American lobby group or another. No candidate sane enough to qualify is likely to be insane enough to comment on an issue likely to cause a pressure group to block the nomination, which means questions about issues hot within the US are a non-starter when it comes to finding anything out.

So ask questions that'll get you the information you want, but in a way that is unlikely to trigger a political third-world war against the nominee.

If any crime deserves the death penalty, sexual abuse of children is it.
(Yeah, I take it personally. I have a nine-year old daughter. If you'd seen what these bastards do with kids, you'd scratch their names on a few bullets, too.)

The trouble with a death penalty is when you go "oops".

"11-year-old girl stabbed 12 times and then sexually assaulted" sounds like a capital-punishment offense to me. Too bad you can't trust the cops to do their damn jobs. Nor the lawyers, judges, juries.

Yeah, just ask the Birmingham Six...