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by good ol boy on September 15th, 2009
the public outcry following the hanging of Ruth Ellis (the last woman to be hanged) forced the gverment to put before parliament a bill abolishing capital punishment. the ruth ellis case was based on a woman who was in a abusive relationship, both physical and mental over a long period, her lover continualy cheated on her and she shot him down in a london street. none of the evidence of abuse counted , only the fact she had murdered him meant there was no clemency .I think justice Birket made this point as her barister (he later became a chief justice) he said that in France this would be a crime of passion and she would be aquitted, but english law did not allow for mitigation in those days.A huge groundswell of public horror at her sentence did not move the goverment to commute her sentence to life, this was the final straw and in the next election the Conservatives lost , as Labour campaigned as part of the manifesto for the abolition of the death penalty.This helped them win.
by Schonberg on September 15th, 2009
The answer is 1965
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