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Card 6
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Romilly got a law passed to abolish the death sentence for pickpocketing
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Card 7
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Sir Robert Peel began to argue in parliament that savage punishment was not the answer to crime
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Card 8
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Peel reduced the number of crimes for which a person can be hanged from over 200 to about 5
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Card 9
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The only crimes for which hanging remained were murder, treason, piracy with violence, burning down a weapons store or dockyard
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Card 10
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Public hanging finished completely
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Card 11
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The reform of the prison system
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Card 12
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John Howard became appointed High Sheriff of Bedford
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Card 13
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'The State of Prisons in England and Wales' by John Howard
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Card 14
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John Howard made suggestments for improving prisons before a parliamentary committee
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Card 15
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John Howard dies of Typhus
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