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    When did the last execution take place in Britian?

    Question #20879. Asked by Tom. (Jul 25 02 3:44 AM)


    KIWI IN OZ

    		1955 Ruth ellis was hanged for murdering her lover.

    http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics2/ellis/12.htm


    Jul 25 02, 5:07 AM
    Friar Tuck

    		Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged but according to http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/timeline.html - On the 13th August 1964, Peter Anthony Allen (at Walton Prison Liverpool) and Gwynne Owen Evans, real name John Robson Walby, (at Strangeways Prison Manchester) become the last to be hanged. The executions taking place simultaneously at 8.00 a.m.
    On the 9th November 1965, The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act passed which suspended capital punishment for 5 years. Treason, piracy with violence and arson in Royal Dockyards remained capital crimes.
    In December 1969, Parliament confirmed abolition of capital punishment for murder.
    On July 10 1992, Tony Teare became the last person to be sentenced to death in the UK for a contract killing in the Isle of Man. The sentence was commuted to life in 1994.

    Jul 25 02, 7:22 AM
    mibmob

    		The last public execution in England was:
    FENIAN, Michael Barrett 1868 26 May For Clerkenwell explosion. The LAST public execution in {England;} Old bailey
    http://www.fhsystem.demon.co.uk/Executions.htm

    Jul 25 02, 11:48 AM
    Canadian Cutie

    		Percy Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans on 13 August 1964. See www.geocities.com/pd3a2/hanged2.html

    Jul 25 02, 11:55 AM

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