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- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 abstract "The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c.24) received Royal Assent on 29 May 1868, putting an end to public executions in the United Kingdom. The Act required that all prisoners sentenced to death be executed within the walls of the prison in which they were being held, and that their bodies be buried in the prison grounds. The Act was prompted at least in part by the efforts of reformers such as Sir Robert Peel and Charles Dickens, who called in the national press for an end to the "grotesque spectacle" of public executions. Abolition of public executions was one of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1864-1866. A similar measure, the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill, had been introduced in 1867 but failed for lack of parliamentary time.The first execution under the new law was carried out by William Calcraft on 13 August 1868 at Maidstone Gaol; 18-year-old Thomas Wells was hanged for the murder of Edward Walshe, the stationmaster at Dover Priory railway station. Calcraft had previously carried out the last public execution in the UK, when he hanged the Fenian Michael Barrett in front of Newgate Prison on 26 May 1868 for his part in the 1867 Clerkenwell Outrage.".
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- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 longTitle "An Act to provide for carrying out of Capital Punishment within Prisons.".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 parliament "Parliament of the United Kingdom".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 repealingLegislation "Murder Act 1965".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 shortTitle "Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 status "Repealed".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 statuteBookChapter "31".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 subject Category:Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 subject Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1868.
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 comment "The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c.24) received Royal Assent on 29 May 1868, putting an end to public executions in the United Kingdom. The Act required that all prisoners sentenced to death be executed within the walls of the prison in which they were being held, and that their bodies be buried in the prison grounds.".
- Capital_Punishment_Amendment_Act_1868 label "Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868".
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