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A Date with the Hangman: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

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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 sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain's courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for several offenses, both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, the death penalty, in theory at least, remained for a number of crimes. During the twentieth cen...