The SNP Government has been taking those brave pills again.

Like in August 2009 when it released Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, from prison because he was dying from cancer. The move was not popular in many quarters, mainly the US. Criticism continued as Megrahi did not have the good grace to die quickly.

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