Capital Punishment U.K.. The resource site for the history of death penalty in Britain.. Execution methods explained. Listing of all U.K. executions from 1735 - 1964.. Places of execution Individual capital cases examined.

Capital Punishment UK is on FaceBook - Click here to read a new a case every day. Individual cases (chronological) Capital punishment in Britain. Catherine Hayes. History of the death penalty in Britain. Complete listings of British executions. Sarah Malcolm. The origins of judicial hanging in Britain. England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 & 1932 - 1964

Hanging has been the principal form of execution in Britain since the 5th Century, although other methods such as drowning, burial alive, hurling from cliffs, beheading, boiling alive, burning at the stake and shooting have been used at various times.

The abolition of capital punishment was a major priority of the incoming Labour government of Harold Wilson when it came to office on the 15th of October 1964 and its first Home Secretary, Sir Frank Soskice. On the 28th of October 1965, a Private Member's Bill to suspend the death penalty, sponsored by the left wing MP, Mr. Sydney Silverman, received Royal Assent.

For more on the evolution of the “long drop” have a look at http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/longdrop.html and http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/longdrop2.html. Drop tables. In 1886, Lord Aberdare was commissioned to report into hanging in Britain after various unfortunate incidents. Part of his …

Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries. 18th century. Executions at London's Tyburn 1695 -1783 – full list. English & Welsh executions by circuit 1735 - 1799

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging.html scroll to bottom of page. The measured or long drop. Here is an official government photograph of a long drop hanging in Kuwait. The hyperflexion of the neck caused by the British style eyelet noose is self-evident.

You will see that after 1835 the execution rate remained fairly stable and averaged 11.2 per annum for the rest of the century, as the number of capital crimes had been dramatically reduced between 1812 and 1834.

156 men and 2 women were executed in January, their details are as under.

Women continue to suffer the death penalty in the 21st century. The majority have been hanged or beheaded, whilst others have been shot or executed by lethal injection.