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Harold Wilkins, at 16 years old, was the last juvenile sentenced to the death penalty in the United Kingdom, in 1932 for a sexually related murder, but he was reprieved due to age. [33] In 1938 the issue of the abolition of capital punishment was brought before parliament.
Criminal penalty Death by hanging Ruth Ellis ( née Neilson ; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Liam Holden (1953 – 15 September 2022) was an Irish man who, in 1973 at the age of 19, was sentenced to death by hanging following his conviction for killing a British soldier in Northern Ireland. He was the last person sentenced to death in the UK, as Northern Ireland maintained the death penalty following its abolition in Great Britain in ...
Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria: August 1993 [1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola: 1977 [2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason: firing squad: A Benin: 23 September 1987 [3] murder: A Bophuthatswana: 13 December 1990 [4] [5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder: hanging: D Botswana: 11 June 2021 ...
Joyce was the last person to be executed in Britain for treason; [48] the death penalty for treason was abolished with the introduction of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. [49] Schurch was the last person to be hanged in Britain for treachery, and the last to be hanged for any offence other than murder. [48]
Hamida Djandoubi (1977) last execution in France; Samuel Herbert Dougal (1903) Mrigendra Dutta (1933) Ruth Ellis (1955) last woman executed in the UK; Gwynne Owen Evans (1964) one of the last two executions in the UK; John Louis Evans (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Alabama; Timothy Evans (1950) pardoned; Jason Fairbanks (1801) Mona Fandey ...
Harold Bernard Allen (5 November 1911 – 14 August 1992) was one of Britain's last official executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964.He was chief executioner at 41 executions and acted as assistant executioner at 53 others, at various prisons in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Cyprus.
Robert Andrew McGladdery (18 October 1935 – 20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. [1]He was convicted of the murder of Pearl Gamble, aged 19, whom he had battered, strangled and stabbed to death on 28 January 1961 and whose body was discovered at Upper Damolly, near Newry, County Down.