Shot at Dawn Pardons: Pardons for All
Oct 2006, Vol. 151, No. 5
By John Hughes-Wilson
The current Secretary of State for Defence’s recent political decision to seek parliamentary approval for a statutory pardon for all those executed for military offences in the Great War overturns entrenched and established views on the matter. It has shone a spotlight on a national debate that has frequently been accompanied by more heat than light.
Col (Ret’d) John Hughes-Wilson is an Associate Fellow of RUSI. He is the co-author (with Cathryn Corns) of Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War (2001).
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By John Hughes-Wilson
The current Secretary of State for Defence’s recent political decision to seek parliamentary approval for a statutory pardon for all those executed for military offences in the Great War overturns entrenched and established views on the matter. It has shone a spotlight on a national debate that has frequently been accompanied by more heat than light.
Col (Ret’d) John Hughes-Wilson is an Associate Fellow of RUSI. He is the co-author (with Cathryn Corns) of Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War (2001).
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