Hugh

You're right

Seeing as Capital Punishment was abolished in 1969 (73 in NI), and Jack Straw signed the 6th protocol of the European Convention of Human Rights in Strasbourg in 1999 - this move formally abolished the death penalty in the UK.

In fact, at the last debate about it in the House of Commons in 1994, MPs voted 363 to 186 against its return for people who had murdered a policeman, and voted 403 to 159 against introduction of capital punishment for all murderers.

So, as you said - no debate about it!