The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain...

The death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain on December 18, 1969. It was the fourth time that the proposal had been put forward, but earlier attempts had been blocked by the House of Lords. The last executions in Britain were carried out on August 13, 1965, when Peter Anthony Allen, aged 21, was hanged in Walton Gaol, Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, 24, was hanged in Strangeways, Manchester. They were both convicted of murder. Since the abolition of the death penalty, there has been numerous proposals for bringing back the death penalty. In 1994, a majority defeated a proposal for reintroducing the death penalty for the crime of murdering a police officer on duty. In 1998 the United Kingdom also abolished the use of the death penalty in cases of crimes committed in war, becoming a 'fully abolitionist country'. The provisions of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 abolished the death penalty for the civilian crimes for which it remained on the statute books, and the Human Rights Act 1998 replaced the death penalty with a life sentence in Armed Forces legislation. The European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into English law on October 2nd 2000, of which Article 19 says: "No one may be removed, expelled or extradited to a state where there is a serious risk that he may be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment."