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What year did capital punishment end in England and who was
the last victim?
Hello Jim.
Capital punishment was abolished on 9 November 1965. The last people to be hanged were Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans who were executed on 13 August 1964 for a murder committed at Workington in Cumbria the previous April. Both were hanged at the same time on the same day; Allen at Liverpool and Evans at Manchester. Between then and the Act abolishing capital punishment 15 months later convicted murderers were still sentenced to death, but they were all reprieved.
Mark
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Mark Smith
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I have a good basic knowledge of British political history, but my speciality is the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland from 927 AD. Please no social history questions, it's not my strong point and I'm unlikely to answer them.
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