Capital punishment
Source: Wikimedia Commons
- Capital punishment in modern British law and culture (essay) (https://derekbentley.com/cp-uk.html)
- Capital punishment in the UK (Wikipedia)
- BBC Ethics guide - Capital punishment (https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/capitalpunishment/)
- Crimes and Punishments - Cesare Beccaria (1764) and translation by Farrer JA (1880)
- Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1866
- Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1949-1953), Wingersky MF, The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 1954; 44:695-715 (and book location on Googlebooks)
- Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965
- The abolition of hanging in England (https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/abolish.html)
- Hanging (Wikipedia)
- Albert Pierrepoint (hangman) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint)