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In 1965 England, Wales and Scotland suspended the death penalty with the Murder Act (Abolition of the Death Penalty).

This suspension has not been lifted. The last people executed were hanged for the murder of John Alan West who was slain on the 7th of April 1964.

The executions took place on the 13th of August 1964 at 9 a.m.

Gwynne Owen Evans was executed at Strangeways Prison in Mancheste.

Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool,

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