Last man executed at Shrewsbury Prison 59 years ago

[@markgoddard2560]

Unfortunately due to echo you cannot be heard while Johnny one note tinkles on the piano learning his scales.

[@paulcampbell6316]

The Narcissist bully went too far!

[@fred5477]

Lesson learned. If you want to murder your neighbor, do it in a uniform to the sound of trumpets and you'll retire with a pension.

[@mrmods7912]

The condemned cell and execution chamber where nothing like this in the 1960s... Total cash grab for tourism

[@josephcroft4268]

Harry Allen was the Hangman not a warden

[@Braixie]

My father told me that I am actually related to George Riley, he would have been my great uncle

[@shannyshark]

Do you know where he rests? I would like to pay my respects. I don't believe he was guilty.

[@FRWestwater]

I call bull shit

[@SirD83]

@@shannyshark it’s believed his body was cremated around 1978 and ashes scattered in the unknown location.

[@shannyshark]

@@SirD83 From what I learnt he is somewhere in Shrewsbury cemetery, last I knew the family were looking for his relatives to give him a headstone. I hope that they manage this and George can be at peace.

[@jameretief8327]

Well we all know the end of capital punishment in Britain stopped the murder rate cold and people who committed those crimes were scared stiff of at the most 5 years in a prison and the violent crime in England went tits up.......and then I woke up.

[@woowah32]

@TheRenaissanceman65 This is true, it’s been proven it’s not a deterrent. Not to mention hugely hypercritical.

[@alanmarr3323]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Rubbish go to countries with Sharia law stealing is much less . Chopping people's hands off works!

[@alanmarr3323]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Saves the tax payer money!

[@alanmarr3323]

@TheRenaissanceman65 I don't like the heat l

[@woowah32]

@Donnell Okafor That’s the one…forever grateful for grammar police.👍🏻

[@gailcrowe727]

Trevor Howard. You’re absolutely correct and I have it on good authority. It really irritates me when people say ShrOwsbury.

[@Salopian_mumbles]

I'm from Shrewsbury and have lived here all my life, I'm 42 and both sides of my family are also Salopians and I can say with absolutely authority on the matter that it really is split between the people of Shrewsbury on how we pronounce the name of our home town. Half of us say "Shewsberry" and the others say "Shrowsbury" and both pronunciations are acceptable. Whenever Shrewsbury is featured on the TV this question always seems to crop up and it's presented in a way that the answer is somewhat controversial or mildly offensive to us locals; but reality is both pronunciations are correct and that's the way ur always has been.

[@kevinpiacente3456]

Amazing. Couple weeks later he was dead. Here in America. 35 years later wr finally kill the inmate

[@olliedwards8069]

How is it amazing?

[@geezerp1982]

that is because of a backlog of convicts in the appeal courts ! but dont let the turth get in away with america hating

[@pieterveenders9793]

@@geezerp1982 What the fuck does that have to do with america hating, you think that country is perfect or something, and hence anyone who questions it is thus hating it?

[@geezerp1982]

@@pieterveenders9793 where did i say that the US was perfect you total government loving sheep

[@geezerp1982]

@TheRenaissanceman65 wrong there was no set number appeals laid down in law appeals are can only made on a point of law etc not always 6 weeks case in point The Queen vs Manuel - sentenced on the 29th may 1958 - executed in 11th July

[@JohnnyPeacock1959]

I don't think he should have said that George was in tears before being hanged. The whole process should have remain secret as that was the custom at that time.

[@SirD83]

Lots was kept secret until the home office declassified it many years after. I believe it was Harry Allen whom gave the details of crying.

[@geezerp1982]

no it shouldnt ! executions are done on behalf of the people

[@geezerp1982]

@@SirD83 it was never a state secret to begain with !

[@SirD83]

It was all under the official secrets act. Executioners had to sign this each and every time they carried out the job. So it was a secret, clue in the name “ official secrets act“.

[@JohnnyPeacock1959]

@@geezerp1982 Not on my behalf

[@elephantcompany6061]

The first 4 min is basically pointless banter.

[@Dayholly86]

Thank you!

[@deanbembridge8640]

Very interesting 👍

[@trevorhoward7682]

There is no "O" in Shrewsbury. There is no Common ShrOw or Pygmy ShrOw.

[@ShrewsburyPrison]

'Shrow' is the historically and factually correct way to pronounce Shrewsbury :-)

[@stevetaylor7403]

Some say ‘shrow’, some say ‘shrew’. I take it you pronounce ‘women’ as ‘wimmin’ although there’s no ‘i’ in it.

[@WO2Royalengineersretired]

So who put the swear word in Scunthorpe?

[@trevorhoward7682]

@@WO2Royalengineersretired Should I now label myself "L/Cplroyalengineers"?

[@WO2Royalengineersretired]

@@trevorhoward7682 why not ? Or TrevorHowardVCDCM

[@TheBroadcastNinja]

Good to see Delboy’s still about.....

[@StewartGately]

I think they hung an innocent man.

[@martincook318]

No George Riley should have got a life Sentence not death as one killing does not justify another and when I say life I Mean a full life Sentence as I've been against the Death Penalty for year's and what made Me a lifelong Ablonishonist was Derick Bentley and look how long that tuck into clearing his name 45 year's and thank God that we no longer have Hangings in this Country

[@Montblanc1986]

George was just a tough guy, with the proper parenting he might have made better choices. Sounds like he could have been rehabilitated since he felt remorse at the end. Most killers these days like the ones in Chicago should meet a swift end.

[@stevetaylor7403]

WTF is ‘ablonishonist’. Think you mean ‘abolitionist’. It’s in the dictionary.

[@stevetaylor7403]

No. You’re wrong. His conviction wasn’t quashed. He was given a posthumous pardon. He was guilty of constructive homicide/joint enterprise. What convicted him was the disputed “let him have it, Chris’. The gun or the bullet? There was no disputing Craig’s guilt. He was seen to fire the fatal shot. His youth saved him from the gallows.

[@DarrenMalin]

no now killers get a few years , a new identity and a free council house.

[@augggie]

This needs to be reinstated in every county in the world, at least the States

[@pieterveenders9793]

You do realise that numerous countries have sent innocent men and women to the gallows/firing squad/electric chair/lethal injection gurny? The whole reason the death penalty was abolished in the UK was because several innocent people had been sent to the gallows.... I know of several people who have received life sentences in the Netherlands the past couple of decades who had eventually overturned many years later. Had we had a death penalty in this country those people would have received it, and quite likely been executed before the justice system realised their mistakes. No justice system is perfect, and so long as no justice system is perfect the death penalty should never be allowed.

[@nicolasrimu1631]

@@pieterveenders9793 You forgot the guillotine !

[@pieterveenders9793]

@@nicolasrimu1631 And indeed the guillotine and garotte!

[@woowah32]

It really doesn’t. It’s hugely hypocritical to murder someone as a punishment for murder. Fascinating stuff though, I’ve read up so much on Britain’s hangmen .

[@ryankenyon5010]

Go to hell.

[@trevorhoward7682]

Oh dear. This pair are talking about "warders" instead of prison officers. Perhaps they should talk of "gaolers" or "turnkeys".

[@stevetaylor7403]

They were warders back then. Convention is to use the terms for names of people/places as they were at the time spoken about. For example, General Montgomery led the land forces on D-Day although he was promoted to Field Marshall at the break-out.

[@allenjenkins7947]

Warder is correct. Warden is the American term for a prison governor.

[@GreatBarrWolf]

​@@allenjenkins7947 The correct term you're all looking for is "screw"

[@_jess_erin_]

😱😱

[@joannedarling6077]

I've visited this prison as a vistors many times , as I was coming down them very stairs ,someone was behind me ,laughing n touching my shoulders , but no one was there,..... .I also felt someone's presence in the hanging room, n in the morge... Its highly haunted....

[@sageeffle4065]

Did you go in the most haunted cell c203?

[@joannedarling6077]

@@sageeffle4065 yes I did the hanging room is also haunted n the main landing has some spirits ,it was great fun ,,

[@joannedarling6077]

@Donnell Okafor its noted to be one of most haunted places in shrewsbury actually ,u clearly dont believe in spirits