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1959 the last hanging was of a certain Podola, who had murdered a policeman

The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965suspended the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (but not in Northern Ireland) for murder for a period of five years, and substituted a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

Last hangings were on 13 August 1964 : Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for the murder of John Alan West, the last people executed in Britain

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