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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 United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021 [68] Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging: D Alabama: 21 November 2024 [69] Carey Dale Grayson: capital murder: nitrogen hypoxia: A Alaska ...
The last use of the death penalty in the UK took place in 1964. Another Reform MP Rupert Lowe said it was "time for a national debate" on the use of capital punishment "in exceptional circumstances".
Styllou Christofi was born in Cyprus, then a British protectorate, to a Cypriot family. She grew up in a small, isolated village and received no formal education. According to British historian and crime author Philip Jones, the insularity of Cypriot villages such as the one Christofi was from meant that personal disagreements and arguments among residents were seen as local matters, and could ...
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year. The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...
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 ...