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The last executions in England happened on 13th August 1964.
Peter Anthony Allen and his accomplice, Gwynne Owen Evans were executed by hanging for the murder of John Alan West in April 1964.
The last execution in Scotland was on 15th August 1963.
Henry John Burnett was executed by hanging for the murder of Thomas Guyan.
The last execution in Northern Ireland was on 20th December 1961.
Robert McGladdery was executed by hanging for the murder of Pearl Gamble.
In Wales, the last execution was of Vivian Tweed on 6th May 1958 for murder.
The last woman to be executed in England was Ruth Ellis, who was hanged on 13th July 1955 for murder.
The last executions in Britain were of two men who were hanged on the same day, on 13th April 1964. They were Peter Anthony Allen and Welshman Gwynne Owen Evans, who were executed for the murder of laundry van driver John Alan West on 7th April that year.
Allen was hanged at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Evans at Strangeways Prison in Manchester. The death penalty was never used again until it's final abolition in 1969, although it remained a legal option in Northern Ireland until 1973. An Irish Republican, William Holden, was sentenced to death that year for the murder of a British soldier during the Troubles, but was reprieved whilst he awaited his execution.
Theoretically, the death penalty remained for the crime of treason in the UK until 1998, when it was abolished under Tony Blair's government. However, in practice it would not have been carried out even if someone HAD been found guilty of treason- it's abolition was merely a formality, and before that, anyone found guilty of treason would in reality have been given an indefinite jail sentence.
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