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Card 26

Front

Derek Bentley hung

Back

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Card 27

Front

Ruth Ellis hung

Back

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Card 28

Front

Timothy Evans hung

Back

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Card 29

Front

Murder Abolition of the Death Penalty Act made life imprisonment and alternative to hanging

Back

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Card 30

Front

Murder Abolition of the Death Penalty Act made permanent

Back

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Card 31

Front

Juvenile Courts introduced

Back

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Card 32

Front

First Borstal opened (Borstal Prison, Kent)

Back

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Card 33

Front

Approved schools for offenders under 15 started

Back

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Card 34

Front

Borstals closed down and replaced by Youth Detention Centres

Back

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Card 35

Front

Prison overcrowding became a serious problem

Back

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