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Kenny MacAskill: 'Justice has to be tempered with mercy'

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill MSP is challenged by Newsnight's Gavin Esler about his decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, on compassionate grounds.

Esler begins by asking him what is so compassionate about releasing a man who had killed 270 people.

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