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The death penalty was mandatory (although it was frequently commuted by the government) until the Judgement of Death Act 1823 gave judges the official power to commute the death penalty except for treason and murder. The Punishment of Death, etc. Act 1832 reduced the number of capital crimes by two-thirds.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Lucy Boynton Transforms Into Ruth Ellis, The Last U.K. Woman to Get Death Penalty, in First Image From ‘A Cruel Love’ K.J. Yossman February 19, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Cleotha Abston, the man authorities said abducted and later killed Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher while she was out on a run in the early hours of Sept. 2, 2022, has pleaded guilty, her family ...
An execution outside Newgate Prison in London, early 19th century Pratt and Smith were hanged in front of Newgate Prison on the morning of 27 November. The crowd of spectators was described in The Times' newspaper report as larger than usual; [ 19 ] this was possibly because the hanging was the first to have taken place at Newgate in nearly two ...
Byers denied ever using the knife to HBO and police, and recanted his associated statement only after the police informed him that they had found blood on the knife that matched Christopher's. To this day, the West Memphis Police have yet to investigate Byers any further. Gary Gitchell – Chief Inspector for West Memphis Police. When asked ...