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Timewatch: Season 1993

1993x08 On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging
TV-PG

  • 1993-06-02T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Pepole who were involved in the carrying out of the death penalty recall their experiences and emotions. Includes comments from Syd Dernley, the last living hangman, who considered it `just a job'; the prison chaplain Leslie Lloyd-Rees; and the last living judge to have sentenced a man to hang - Lord Denning. Also includes footage of the last working gallows in Britain at Wandsworth Prison.
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