It was in the 1990's and I think the death penalty had been repealed earlier...
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A History of Homophobia:
5 The Medieval Basis of Modern Law
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Further googling says that the penalty was "merely" life inprisonment untill 1992...
My memory was slightly incorrect, but in my favour that was the first, and last time that I had heard of it...
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A History of Homophobia:
5 The Medieval Basis of Modern Law
Hidden for bigotry (The site isn't bigoted, but quotes bigots, to put it in its historical context)
Indeed the reform of antihomosexual laws has been exceedingly difficult despite the increasingly liberal attitudes of more recent times. The Judaeo-Christian abhorrence of homosexuality and the buggery laws are likely to be with us for a long time to come, exacerbated by the fear of AIDS. In March 1991 for example, during the debate in the parliament of the Isle of Man as to whether or not to decriminalize homosexual acts in accordance with the British Government and the European Convention on Human Rights, the majority of the Council of Ministers wished to retain their law against homosexuality. The argument of the select committee which rejected a proposal to bring their law into line with the rest of Western Europe pretends to be modern in its assertion that private homosexual activity should be banned in order to protect public health by preventing the spread of AIDS, but the vocabulary of prejudice has not changed over the centuries. It was summarized in the words of Mr Edgar Quine, opposed to reform of the Manx laws, who said "Dress it up as we will we are still talking about the unnatural offensive and abominable act of buggery."
ETA:
Further googling says that the penalty was "merely" life inprisonment untill 1992...
My memory was slightly incorrect, but in my favour that was the first, and last time that I had heard of it...
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