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Resting in Peace
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Re: Questions on Hanging
On 13 August 1964 at 8am Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, were each executed for the murder of John Alan West on 7 April that year.[4] These were the last executions in England and in the United Kingdom.
The last execution in Scotland was of 21 year old Henry John Burnett on 15 August 1963 in Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen, for the murder of seaman Thomas Guyan.
The last execution in Northern Ireland was of Robert McGladdery, 25, on 20 December 1961 in Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, for the murder of Pearl Gamble.
The last execution to take place in Wales was of murderer Vivian Teed, hanged in Swansea on 6 May 1958.
The last woman to be executed in the UK was Ruth Ellis on 13 July 1955.
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