The campaign to rid the UK of capital punishment didn’t finish in 1965 questions of penal reform remainThe consignment in 1965 of the hangman’s noose to the penal history museum was,by any standards, a monumental event. It was engineered by the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. A clutch of ardent reformers influenced and persuaded parliamentarians to vote for the abolition of the death penalty for murder, or during just one year’s legislative programme and debates.
The campaign was formed a decade earlier by pressure groups such as the Howard League for Penal Reform. I was the most junior campaigner,an aspiring barrister whose advocacy for penal reform was just beginning.
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Source: theguardian.com