1 hr 14 min
Albert Pierrepoint: The end of Capital Punishment Its Murder Up North
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- True Crime
Join me for the final episode in the Albert Pierrepoint series. In this instalment I will look at the what lead to the abolition of capital punishment, and visit some key cases, from the hanging of Edith Thompson to the final executions of Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans.
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Resources
Pierrepoint: Executioner an autobiography
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b47213&seq=673&format=plaintext Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of evidence, taken before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930, together with Appendices and Index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 9th December, 1930 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20abolish%20penal,law%20relating%20to%20the%20proceedings https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/the-clerkenwell-explosion-and-why-the-fenians-mattered/ https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/today-in-terrorism-december-13-1867-clerkenwell-outrage/ https://dbpedia.org/page/Clerkenwell_explosion http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/timeline.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/wells.html https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/modern-britain/capital-punishment-in-uk/#:~:text=The%20'new%20drop'%20gallows%20were,fell%20through%20a%20trap%20door.&text=The%20'long%20drop'%20was%20introduced,the%20convict%20dying%20by%20suffocation. https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/short%20drop.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zgx94xs/revision/4 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/longdrop.html a href="https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/child.html" target="_blank"...
Join me for the final episode in the Albert Pierrepoint series. In this instalment I will look at the what lead to the abolition of capital punishment, and visit some key cases, from the hanging of Edith Thompson to the final executions of Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans.
Follow the show on
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/mupnorth
X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/murderupnorth
and YouTube @itsmurderupnorth4448
Resources
Pierrepoint: Executioner an autobiography
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b47213&seq=673&format=plaintext Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of evidence, taken before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930, together with Appendices and Index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 9th December, 1930 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20abolish%20penal,law%20relating%20to%20the%20proceedings https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/the-clerkenwell-explosion-and-why-the-fenians-mattered/ https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/today-in-terrorism-december-13-1867-clerkenwell-outrage/ https://dbpedia.org/page/Clerkenwell_explosion http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/timeline.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/wells.html https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/modern-britain/capital-punishment-in-uk/#:~:text=The%20'new%20drop'%20gallows%20were,fell%20through%20a%20trap%20door.&text=The%20'long%20drop'%20was%20introduced,the%20convict%20dying%20by%20suffocation. https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/short%20drop.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zgx94xs/revision/4 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/longdrop.html a href="https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/child.html" target="_blank"...
1 hr 14 min