The politics of the rope: the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969

This thesis is an account of the campaign to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s. It examines the campaign and the debate that it generated from a very broad perspective. It looks briefly at the history of capital punishment in this country so as to s...

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Main Author: Twitchell, Neville
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/7596/1/499578.pdf