Tag: 1957 Homicide Act

• On This Day in 1954 – Ian Grant and Kenneth Gilbert, the last double hanging in Britain.

  

  So, it’s to London’s notorious Pentonville Prison we go for an historic event in British penal history. Hangings in themselves were nothing unusual, although by 1954 (only a year or so after the wrongful execution of Derek Bentley at Wandsworth) they were becoming increasingly rare events. Double hangings were becoming especially unusual, the days when…

  CrimeScribe

  June 17, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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