Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed �

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Agains

This study furnishes data on executions performed in the United States under civil authority. It includes a description of each individual executed and the circ

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A true-crime history of 20th-century, British judicial hangings from 1900 to 1964, and a look at the overall history of executions in Great Britain. It is a sob