The end of Capital Punishment in Britain

 On 8 November 1965, in Britain an act to abolish the death penalty for murder received the royal assent, making it law. Capital punishment for murder was permanently abolished in 1969.

Franz Muller

  Franz Muller, a German, was the first person to murder someone on a train in Britain.  

Burke and Hare - they murdered people then sold the bodies

  Burke and Hare are often called grave robbers. In reality, they did not rob graves. Instead, they murdered people and then sold the victims’ bodies to surgeons for dissection.

The Pillory

 The pillory was a wooden frame on a pole with holes through which a person’s head and hands were placed. The frame was then locked, and the person was subjected to humiliation. The stocks were a wooden frame with holes through which a person’s feet were placed, and they were humiliated in the same way.

The use of the pillory and stocks went out of favour in the 19th century. The pillory was abolished in Britain in 1837, and the stocks were last used in 1872.

Tyburn

 On 3 November 1783 a highwayman named John Austin became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn, London.

Allan Grierson

 On 30 October 1935 Allan Grierson aged 29 was hanged in London for the murder of a 63 year old woman named Louise Bertha Gann. He beat her with a flat iron in a London flat. She was still alive when found but she died the next day. Grierson was a petty criminal before the murder and he stole some jewellery from the flat. A petition for a reprieve was signed by 8,000 people but it was refused. 

This is an excellent YouTube video about the case.

A 46 year old murder solved

This is a very good video about a murder solved after 46 years by DNA evidence The DNA Breakthrough That Solved a 46-Year-Old Murder | True Crime Documentary