The youngest person to be hanged in the UK 😲 BBC

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer... In 1922, an 18-year-old hotel pantry boy was found guilty and convicted of murder in 43 minutes, making him one of the youngest people to be hanged in the UK in the 20th century. 100 years later, his relative takes on the challenge of proving this case was a miscarriage of justice.
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[@meg2042]

A wrongful arrest and death sentence means the real culprit was never brought to justice.

[@williamcarter361]

He was guilty, they found two handkerchiefs covered in blood.

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Tod Willingham look his story up.

[@thesimpdaughter9948]

What a pity for the people who have experienced false accusations. The system has not changed until now. If you are rich, you have justice and if you are poor, you have no rights.

[@walsingham-xxiii]

Was it a false accusation? This circus proves nothing whatsoever.

[@thesimpdaughter9948]

@@walsingham-xxiii I mean in general jurisdiction.

[@johnoriordan7419]

So true, still the same I'm afraid

[@williamcarter361]

He was guilty, cannot cheat the Hangman.

[@jeremysmith8035]

One of the reaSons people people voted for brexit was to bring back hanging. Do they now think its a bit suspect and not much deterant? I am confused.

[@alisondark8183]

Watching 'Let Him Have It' about Derek Bentley's hanging had a profound effect on me. As a result I started writing to a man and a woman on Death Row in different states of America. I've attended conferences and met a man whose execution was stayed at the last minute 3 times before DNA evidence proved that he was entirely innocent. He's not alone. There are some crimes which are so heinous that a death penalty seems the only solution but I believe that no system is without flaws and taking a life is too extreme when mistakes can be made. This story is terribly sad and also shows how much easier it is to be the victim of legal injustice if you are poor.

[@johnniethepom2905]

I met Christopher Craig in 1982 . He worked in an elecrical factory in Hitchin, Hertfordshire .

[@ronnieince4568]

Alison Dark when capital punishment was repealed it was done so on the basis that life imprisonment would replace it -a minimum of 40 years in prison .What has happened in practice is that the reality us it us in average 12 years in a holiday camp prison .At the time it was life with hard labour. again hard labour has been abolished .People on prison today ofter have a much better life than many honest upright citizens -the sympathy today is with the criminal.-not the victim and the family of the victim.are not even consulted on what they think an appropriate sentence. .

[@flowerofscotland8839]

Google "Fourteen Days in May" a BBC documentary about Parchman penitentiary, Mississippi and an Innocent young man named Edward Earl Johnson. The case was taken on late by Clive Stafford Smith. Paul the producer and Clive slowly, horrifically discover this man was framed. It's not in the programme but, the warden, off camera doesn't think he's guilty and the producer contacted the BBC Rome Correspondent to contact the pope as Edward was Catholic, who appealed for him. It led to the creation of Reprieve, the anti Death Penalty campaign.

[@ronnieince4568]

@@flowerofscotland8839 nothing wrong with an anti death penalty campaign provided it is honest The problem on the UK was that it was dishonest and the promised alternative was never implemented And today in the U.K. there are over 30 bereaved families whose loved ones have been killed by so called lifers who were released In the last month Colin Pitchfork who killed 2 young girls has been released -should be kill again none of those who decided to release him.will be held accountable in any way ; none if the names and details of these people are public and none of the submissions and deliberations as to how this decision was arrived at are in the public domain .Quite simply the law is aimed at supporting the criminal -not protecting the law abiding public Live should mean 40 years minimum and hard labour 7 days a week 14 hours a day -no holiday camp.prisons.

[@flowerofscotland8839]

@@ronnieince4568 Aye. I don't know your age but the 1993 Bulger Case gripped us all at college. Some pitied the killers but not I nor most. That Thompson's a psychopath. Venables has a conscience. I think he deliberately got caught with child photos to get his punishment. I think he said he felt guilt that he hadn't been punished enough. Unbelievable. That Thompson (the leader) is also far too clever to go inside. I'm Socialist but Howard - Home Office Secretary, was right to extend the sentence. Sadly, it got reversed in the Lords. Adult prison yes. But I still can't say I wish they were dead by state.

[@Silver_Owl]

As soon as I saw this, I remembered reading about it in "Diary of a Hangman", so I was pleased they quoted it. It's a very interesting book. I remember being moved by John Ellis's recollections of the case - he clearly had great compassion for Henry Jacoby.

[@shellwells9703]

One should always ask "who stood to gain from this murder?"

[@michaelsalisbury994]

That is always the very first question I suspect somebody very high up but then is always these people seem to escape Justice

[@SilverStrumer]

He was used as a scapegoat by the real suspects. So sad.

[@lsrenoit774]

This is Shame I can't help but cry about this young man total abuse from courts

[@happyfeet4506]

Lies, and corruption put this innocent man to death. Poor fella. God bless ❤️

[@robertgrey6101]

StormShadow May he be sitting at God's right hand while the real culprits are condemned to eternal death for their false testimony or refusal to confess their actions and take due punishment for them.

[@wesmatron]

The death penalty opens up the ability for the state to commit murder in broad daylight.

[@shmookins]

What's with the BBC using emojis in the titles of their videos? And using one in such a heavy video as this one? Very tone-deaf indeed...

[@davepowell7168]

To help us form the opinion suggested.

[@brionytoop715]

To not learn from history is to repeat it. While the UK may no longer hang people many countries still do without due respect to law.

[@t1n4444]

Hmm, but if other countries hang people for capital crimes then that will be in that country's criminal code. Other governments can do whatever they like with their criminals. China, for example hang their criminals and use the remains for organ donation. Suspect the "hanging process" occurs in a transplant hospital so the organs are as fresh as can be for a successful transplant. Just remember "it's a different culture".

[@brionytoop715]

Of course, my point was that was the culture back then and still is with corruption, they just can’t hang anymore, by no means making it right. I understand differing cultures however to kill another person and it be accepted as a cultural theory does not make it right, is it right to deny women the rights not to be stoned to dead, the Black Lives Matter movement, some might say that’s American culture, almost wiping out all the Original Owners of Tasmania when invaded, Germany’s past crimes, Chairman Moa’s crime, The Killing Fields in Cambodia, I could keep going and going, these were are considered cultural understandings at their time, absolutely none are acceptable. Whether you wrongly kill one life or millions because an individual believes it’s culturally acceptable never makes it right. EVER.

[@t1n4444]

@@brionytoop715 Hmm, as before it's up to a country to decide it's own criminal code. Human rights are decided by a particular country also. In this country Parliament enact the laws and could reintroduce the death penalty for capital crimes, such as terrorism if Parliament decided it would be a useful deterrent. How that would affect suicide bombers of course is a tricky one.

[@brionytoop715]

I understand your point but as a human being weather it is political, cultural, criminal, individual a human life is a life and no person, culture, government, or any other bodies have the right to impress their beliefs, culture, upbringing to take a life. I understand and respect what your point of view is I just respectfully completely disagree. Every single life in any form on this earth has a right to basic human rights. Again my point history needs to be remembered so the injustices of the past are not repeated.

[@t1n4444]

@@brionytoop715 Hmm, not sure you're getting this. As before it's a cultural thing and not everyone in various governments or countries hold life that dear. If you have, say, some nutter who preys on children then why would you want to imprison him somewhere he could be attacked and killed by other inmates? You might argue it would be more humane to execute them straight away. As in which is crueller, a quick death or years of torment?

[@US.ElectionMeddler]

Still happens now, Jill Dando/Barry George

[@tommoncrieff1154]

Yes, but he wasn’t hanged and although you can’t go back in time and make it right, at least in legal terms they were able to release him and correct the judgement.

[@bingbong7316]

We knew, ordinary people in the cafe, the day Barry George was sentenced that he was innocent. There goes another great British miscarriage of justice, we said, and supped our cappuccinos glumly.

[@MovingSocks2.0]

Really interesting not the 1st time police are exploiting people…. Still a problem today’s age.

[@paulhart4689]

Something should be done against this negligence no matter how long ago it was

[@pizzaboy3946]

So, to sum up: having denied any involvement he then confessed to the murder and it is given that he killed the victim. At court, with the benefit of legal counsel, he admitted entering the room of a hotel guest simply because he heard a noise (without alerting the attention of anyone) and struck the victim with a hammer. It could have been without the intention to kill (initially) but it seems a perfectly fair comment by the judge that, even if his evidence were accepted, it would still amount to manslaughter. This is because a reckless act the leads to the death of someone is all that is required for manslaughter. Another report I read also stated his evidence at one point was he went to steal and took the hammer with him. That would suggest an intention to kill or cause serious bodily harm (which is all that is required for murder) even if it not a desired outcome. Leaving aside the debate about capital punishment, we have to remember that a vulnerable 65 year old widow (who in the care of the hotel) was brutally killed while she lay in her bed. I wonder how many of these experts would feel the same if a loved one had met with a similar fate?

[@99thehighstreet69]

Innocent .He was set up.Easy target.Dreadful.

[@sharonott7513]

How sad for this poor boy.

[@wilfredruffian5002]

To think that there was once a time when society cared more about law abiding citizens than criminals.

[@mashamorgan]

When I read he was playing cricket with the warders laughing and carrying on hours before the execution I felt that poor lad didn't have capacity and should not have been hanged guilty or not

[@abdul-hadidadkhah1459]

Amazing how you managed to do a psychiatric test based on someone laughing. That doesn't prove anything other than he was enjoying his last moments on this plain of existence.

[@dirge7459]

This is just one of the many examples of why I truly believe the law and court of law is never truly blind, it is biased and will forever remain that way, until we have those in such a position of power, that will actually throw away their bias in favour of a neutral standing instead, but I've yet to see that happen with Mankind.

[@BradBrassman]

Yes, even today it favours the rich. Where I live a Dukes grandson driving to fast in his sports car hit and killed an old couple on an outing for the day. The little old lady was found in a field many yards away he hit her so hard. When it came to court the judge ruled that he'd suffered enough and dismissed the case.

[@tonytrismegistusroberts5124]

They're there to show the public results and it doesnt matter if its true only that the public believe justice has been served.

[@dirge7459]

@@tonytrismegistusroberts5124 And the public are often at times stupid and irresponsible in their means to see what is wrong and what is right. There have been so many, many times where our species has made completely retarded decisions, or the public allowing bad shit to spread unopposed.

[@tonytrismegistusroberts5124]

@@dirge7459 exactly, we are the architects of our own enslavement.

[@davepowell7168]

Having sat on a jury, l agree.

[@KN-ck2kd]

the emoji in the title comes off as a bit tone deaf, I have to say!

[@AirQuotes]

It's quite odd I'm not sure why it was included.

[@nightshift4587]

The bbc is a strange organisation altogether.

[@davepowell7168]

Inappropriate levity.

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

Well this was a very disturbing story indeed,but was one to learn about.

[@pauldh62]

Will there be a posthumous pardon coming from the Home Office? Perhaps they'll grant one once his cousin once removed, Peter, is no longer with us, just as it did for Derek Bentley after his sister had died.

[@wildandbarefoot]

Access to the Law is open to All. Just like the Ritz

[@lsrenoit774]

Still goes on today for the sake of money and power

[@Iazzaboyce]

Before audio recording devices, statements were usually handwritten (then typed up) by the interviewing police officers and the accused person asked (told) to sign. So, not a very accurate method of obtaining the accused person's testimony.

[@Anthony-cn6zp]

He was not the youngest person to be hanged. Michael Hammond was, he was just 7 years ago, and his sister Ann was 11 years old. They were hanged together. 1808

[@cherylbean521]

It happens all the time, sadly.

[@joshsabine219]

I'm surprised with those ears, he cant listen into the past and hear how the police interviewed the lad

[@johnbar6975]

It still happens all the time, sure not hanging but get years away from their life

[@harrynewiss4630]

Correctly sentenced

[@MrMelmott]

Who goes into a hotel room with a hammer ?

[@ross8474]

Very interesting

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

Just how many more Henry Jacoby's must there be?

[@thesecondYouTube]

Shouldn't have emojis in the title.

[@tonyarichards5430]

Yeah, they did that boy wrong.

[@malfattio2894]

Did you have to put an emoji in the the title of this one?

[@sarahashun1180]

There are many Henry Jacoby’s in the USA.

[@AHoundOnAHonda]

Many Henry Jacoby's what in the USA?

[@binaway]

1922 assistance of a lawyer. No way.

[@psalmsreader7997]

I think he was the fall guy who took the rap for the woman's benefactor. Who got rich off of her death? No investigation was carried out, they just grabbed a kid. It happens all the time.

[@markrhodes5474]

Exploited by the police sentenced to death by the corrupt Judiciary what's changed

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

What is the difference between where the burden of proof lies then compared to now?

[@jstone247]

Justice is not blind, it is biased. Class means everything in Britain.

[@johnlynch5573]

Not guilty,poor soul.

[@williamcarter361]

He did confess. Admitted that he wanted to steal at the hotel. Had two handkerchiefs covered in blood. You cannot cheat the hangman.

[@wendyboothman294]

Rough justice was a great tv series too

[@pwareham61]

That was excellent

[@davepowell7168]

False confessions were a quick solution, pre video and tape.

[@Etheral101]

So glad we got rid of capital punishment. No man should be allowed to judge another for death.

[@ashleyhyne7027]

clickbait. The youngest person suddenly becomes 'one of the youngest'.

[@postscript67]

These people remind me of the police and lawyers they criticise. The same inability to see the other side of the case, the same blinkered attempt to get the result they want. It doesn't get us any nearer the truth. But if it makes them feel virtuous, what does it matter, eh?

[@RoyhaneHangga]

This video notification appears as the song Killers by Kevin MacLeod plays in my device, what a coincidence

[@xavi_M]

I was watching naruto lol

[@djburland]

The youngest hanged was 7 for loaf of bread

[@krishanu-d1k]

When the law go against the law.

[@AirQuotes]

What was the evidence against him? Did he have a history of stealing or assault? And what was his motive/opportunity for killing her? Who else could've done it? Dodgy intergerations definitely happened guilty or not which isn't OK.

[@dirge7459]

There was none. They never bothered with his life, and the judge refused to believe a word he'd said, which is why this was made into a big deal, because the judge factually denied the word from the other side, thus proving to the world how faulty he was in his prior judgement. It blows my mind, that the judge got away with something so blatantly faulty as refusing another side's story/plea.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

@@dirge7459 Reminds me of the Jeremy Bamber murder case...

[@gravesintheuk8511]

How crazy

[@billyslaironair8860]

should bring it back, too many people have it easy for their crimes

[@Thebluedisc_]

That is not fair his family must have been devesated

[@martinfleming7001]

He confessed and was near the crime scene but let's go all BBC and suggest that the police at the time couldn't do their jobs properly.

[@williamcarter361]

Absolutely. He killed her. He also owned a hammer and had two handkerchiefs covered in blood.

[@dreamer_4937]

It’s well known that the criminal justice system in the 20s was a shambles, and remained so well into the 50s and beyond

[@alex-1314]

@@dreamer_4937... right to the present.

[@matthewdunham4]

Good video but please dont put emojis in your title bbc.

The emoji in the title feels a bit insensitive. This isn't a Graham Norton clip.

[@splinterbyrd]

Not convinced either way about the Henry Jacoby case....

[@dirge7459]

How so?

[@abdul-hadidadkhah1459]

@@dirge7459 because the evidence was not considered in this belated retrial. Just the technicalities of the trial itself and some other emotional arguments. Not conclusive.

[@dirge7459]

@@abdul-hadidadkhah1459 There was next to no evidence in the original. If you'd watched how the original played out, it was the judge going "no, I don't believe you" to the boy, and also the judge taking "titles" into account, not core evidence (because back in those times titles were something, despite them being next to worthless). This very video points out the original trial lacking proper evidence.

[@abdul-hadidadkhah1459]

@@dirge7459 this video didn't once look at the evidence provided by the defence or prosecutor...that's just an emotional argument, a judge doesn't have to believe someone who has 2 different stories.

[@abdul-hadidadkhah1459]

@@dirge7459 obviously there was evidence and a confession.

[@theculturedthug6609]

They will all be on my case... In a 100 years time ahh shit.

[@tombartram6842]

I'm just a poor boy from a poor family 👪

[@davepowell7168]

May you be spared for your monstrosity.

[@nucleargaz1]

Yes but did he do it? ..... plus the judges summing up was pants & from what was shown here was an unreliable conviction .... unless theres more evidence we haven't heard, then it was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

[@williamsclive2900]

The law will always be an ass

[@tombristowe846]

What a load of bollocks. At 2 min 15sec the psychologist sums it up, probably unintentionally, by saying, "there are so many things we don't know.." But all these self-important lawyers go on to opine on this and that, as though it were happening now rather than a hundred years ago, only to come to the conclusion that manslaughter might have been a safer verdict. So basically everyone agrees he did it. Throw in some sentimental music and a distant relative and everyone in the comments section is wringing their hands at the injustice of it. Suckers.

[@harrylime8412]

So, the Butler did it.

[@UXB-p5u]

" This young kid was exploited by the police ".....NO surely not just imagine eh 🤔🙏❤️

[@nothanks6988]

Ngl the emoji in the title just feels off

[@bonitobonita9263]

So many people still wrongfully convicted. We need more exposures including from the past but do you really need that 😲????

[@josanishere1384]

Really need what?

[@mikelheron20]

@@josanishere1384 The emoji 😲

[@josanishere1384]

@@mikelheron20 ?

[@bonitobonita9263]

@@josanishere1384 you don’t see the “surprised face” 😲 emoji on the title?

[@ballfondler63]

I thought that said banged

[@recall2880]

It’s Paul o Grady

[@CJMVector321190]

This is why people are against the death penalty. Now though we can DNA and be certain of the killers.

[@robertwinslade3104]

We still can't be 100% certain. The death penalty has no place in a civilised country

[@sideshow4417]

Oh he was poor and young, must have been innocent then...

[@abdul-hadidadkhah1459]

Yeah not once has the evidence been reviewed in this, just emotional arguments to get the case thrown out based on technical grounds of the trial.

[@Teki]

Why that emoji in the title?!?!

[@chipbuttytime3396]

Now the young are no longer in awe of authority but in awe of makeup vloggers and Miley Cyrus.....

[@tonidewonderful4187]

@Danny Robinson I know a kid with your name he comes from Darlington, goes by the the name Toastie too, robs old people. You may well be him he talks waffle too

[@chrissc238]

Authority has always and will continue to be evil. The young are wiser.

[@chipbuttytime3396]

@@tonidewonderful4187 Lol

[@andrewwarmington]

Sorry but he was convicted on compelling evidence and, although he was extremely young, it was a terrible crime. The police procedures would no way measure up to today's standards but he had no real cause for complaint by the standards of the day.

[@walsingham-xxiii]

Historians call this presentism.

[@davepowell7168]

In that case he looks the part.

[@hisheighnessthesupremebeing]

What a crappy piece of journalism.. Of course its important to have a fair and just trail.. But was he guilty or not?.. It seems like that is a question that is relevant and totally ignored in this BBC crap..

[@xavi_M]

Damn😯

[@paulgibbons2320]

Establishment had a steady supply of poor scapegoats. Thou shalt not kill said the Lord. He did not make exceptions.

[@davepowell7168]

There shall always be scapegoats.

[@nhunghoang8810]

wtf? is the world already negative to post stuff like this?

[@guff9567]

Fair dos. He's only a pleb and she's an aristocratic Lady

[@Palios33]

18 year old Evagoras Pallikaridis was hanged by the british colonists in Cyprus because he wanted freedom

[@alexcrowson5750]

Bring back

[@benjamincottle8500]

Sadly not all that uncommon an event….. 18 and fitted up for murder by the sound of things - shame on all those complicit. As an aside it’s great to see Dobby had a life after Harry Potter 😇

[@greatunwashed1856]

Brilliant observation,very funny 😄

[@Arsenic404]

Fam it's 6:26 am can I go to sleep now

[@kenzier1788]

Why are you watching the BBC then?

[@Arsenic404]

@@kenzier1788 well, couldnt sleep and had a BBC notification so yeeee

[@vansf3433]

It is ignorant and irrelevant to compare 1922's legal system to today's when it has been almost one century since then, and everything and the order of the world then and today's are totally completely different. At that time , you didn't have any lawyer and hightech and so much experience in serious crime investigation and fair social treatnent as today , coming of lower sicial classes In the objective eyes of the law of a developed human society, everyone is equally responsible for any crime they have intentionally committed , regardless their social status , gender , age, point of view, mental health conditions etc in order to guarantee social justice or fairness for every of member of society. Personal narrow points of view and feelings or emotion are taboos in a solid and fair legal system in which there are only two clearcut definitions of being legal and illegal or right and wrong, and nothing else can be between to distort the meanings You cannot take anything as an excuse for the motivation of an intentional or attempted murder because if so, your society's legal system which has been established to give you a certain form of law and order to serve yourvown safety and the interests of overall society will become a stupid jocke when anyone can take this exuse or that excuse to justify their serious crimes against the rest of society, and the rate of such serious crimes as murder , rape will rise out of control as seen tiday, and your society will become a chaotic one where anyone can become an innocent victim of intentional murder for any reason, or even for no reason at all like so many cases seen in USA where some individuals, who have lost their human nature and become wild animals too dangerous to the rest of society , enjoy killing other people, and do not have any respect for the feeble and powerless legal system of which they can make easy use of, with a corrupt lawyer who knows so very well where the loopholes of the messy legal system lie to help dangerous animals to escape capital punishment and walk away free There are always some cases of victims of unfair trials in every human society or every country , no matter whichever ideology or whichever set of human subjective beliefs they are based on Nevertheless such cases are a very small number, compared to the interests of overall human society, and you always go with the common interests of the majority of society , but not the interests of mererly a small number of individuals in every case or situation which is how your legal system and the majority of other legal systems in the world were established, and that's the only way for you to have a democracy or a democratic society in which the ordinary people which are the majority of the population can set up their governing system to serve the interests of the majority of the population You can certainly expect everything to be perfect as how they are idealized in theories But nothing can be perfect, and there are always some flaws and defective holes in every field including in legal systems. That is why you have different stages or phases of humandevelopments, and such flaws and defective holes become less and less as human developments make more and more forward progress, and as your society updates the legal system

[@angelataylor8614]

Nothing can be perfect and always flaws? There is no room for flaws when someone is killed for a crime they didn't commit. This is exactly why the death penalty should be outlawed in every country.

[@t1n4444]

@@angelataylor8614 According to yourself ... but again it comes down to culture. Not all cultures are so "forgiving" of capital crimes as we (UK) are.

[@dirge7459]

@@t1n4444 So a culture in the 21st century is allowed to be barberic because "culture"?. This is why we have wars, because at some point in time, there's always one "culture" that thinks it's doing the right thing (gassing jews anyone?, or how about stoning women and gays?), but the rest of the world disagrees on and well, we're that sort of species that rolls with morals and overwhelming numbers. If the rest of the world thinks what another culture does is bad, then chances are, it's bad, not "culture", not something automatically defended because of one mere word.

[@dirge7459]

Could you put this into short form, because I feel like you're dragging this out into something that could easily be shorted to 1-2 lines of dialogue.

[@t1n4444]

Only "feeble" in the sense there are so many "get out of jail free" opportunities. Sometimes "summary execution" might be a far better option in "controlling" the other villains who would decide they could do as they felt like, as in amusing themselves by going on a killing spree, simply because they could. Of course there would be injustices but the idea is, after all, to maintain order within society as a whole. Otherwise chaos reigns. Interestingly some science fiction writers have presented a glimpse of a dystopian society where justice is seen as summary or "instant" as in the "Judge Dread" comics and films. For all we know this might be prophetic in the true sense. I got the impression this summary justice thing is already here after the Floyd episode. Clearly there was every intention of execution ... 9 minutes in which no other police of paramedics sought to intervene. Plus of course there was a video of the "execution". It might even suggest members of the black community were happy to film one of their own being murdered by "whitey cops" as proof of police brutality. In short Floyd was considered expendable and simply thrown under the bus. The "problem" as such is that Floyd took so long to die. Had it happened in just a few minutes then it could have been an accident caused by an over zealous police officer.

[@safarieten]

"I felt sorry for him really"?... How could you feel sorry for a murderer ?........ Hang him high !!!! Do you you feel sorry for the victim ???

[@williamcarter361]

Exactly, he was guilty. You cannot cheat the Hangman

[@davepowell7168]

I don't him or her so beyond the periphery of my control.

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

Let im ave it Chris!

[@ミシリベツマチ]

Before Lenin, Great Britain was a prototype of the soviet union. God save the queen! 😂

[@dilobs]

Isn't it hung?

[@a_wise_man7701]

Bach..

[@markrichards636]

Hanged or hung?

[@_luggysvnt_]

Framed like me

[@greatunwashed1856]

Crikey, are you the Laughing Cavalier

[@davepowell7168]

@@greatunwashed1856 Son of ......

[@stephenfarthing485]

Those were very different times. Hanging did defer murders but only for the next 41 years from this time of 1922. By the 1960's opinions became split on the worth of death sentences. These days, the only exception for the death sentences is harming or attempted murder of a Chelsea Pensioner, or as an act of treason which endangers all lives. Capital sentences can deter and these days - 25 years in prison is that. But death sentences have been ruled out mostly since the end of the 1960's! Very few exceptions. For these!

[@spanishpeaches2930]

I don't think treason is a hanging offence any longer..Tony Blair saw to that.

[@simonbone]

Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes in the UK in 1998.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@simonbone That's because Blair could potentially see himself swinging one day....

[@WASIFmusic.]

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[@buddistjejus5825]

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[@Deibu-san]

False heads

[@anant_wwrarmilladiskipdwth1324]

all thee wa alone. an victimes of politicale games... .presidente has many enemies. ta care buisy presidents . .