When murderers were hanged quickly
Fifty years ago the last murderers were hanged in the UK. It brought to an end an era of extraordinarily swift capital punishment. At 08:00 on Thursday 13 August 1964, two keys turned in the locks of two prison cell doors - one in Manchester, the other in Liverpool. Moments later, two men were dead, hanged for the crime of capital murder. Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen, two petty criminals who killed a man in a bungled burglary, were the last two people to be executed for murder in the UK.
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