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In 2004, Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights became binding on the United Kingdom; it prohibits the restoration of the death penalty as long as the UK is a party to the convention (regardless of the UK's status in relation to the European Union). [1]
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.
Joyce was the last person to be executed in Britain for treason; [49] the death penalty for treason was abolished with the introduction of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. [50] Schurch was the last person to be hanged in Britain for treachery, and the last to be hanged for any offence other than murder. [49]
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
The murder of John Alan West on 7 April 1964 was the crime which led to the last death sentences being carried out in the United Kingdom. West, a 53-year-old van driver for a laundry company, was beaten and stabbed to death by Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen, who had gone to rob him at his home in Seaton, Cumberland.
Henry John Burnett (5 January 1942 – 15 August 1963) was the last man to be hanged in Scotland, and the first in Aberdeen since 1891. He was tried at the high court in Aberdeen from 23 to 25 July 1963 for the murder of merchant seaman Thomas Guyan. His execution, at HM Prison, Craiginches, Aberdeen, was performed by hangman Harry Allen.
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
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 ...