Great Britain
In Great Britain, this offence was created by section 5 of the Homicide Act 1957. Section 1(3) of the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 reads:
For the purpose of any proceedings on or subsequent to a person’s trial on a charge of capital murder, that charge and any plea or finding of guilty of capital murder shall be treated as being or having been a charge, or a plea or finding of guilty, of murder only; and if at the commencement of this Act a person is under sentence of death for murder, the sentence shall have effect as a sentence of imprisonment for life.Read more about this topic: Capital Murder
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