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dated September 24, 1953: Death Sentence to Continue in Britain

On the 23rd, a 11-member Royal Commission set itself in favour of retaining the death penalty for murder and continuing the method of hanging, but suggested that administering lethal injection be examined as an alternative eventually. The Commission had probed almost every aspect of capital punishment since 1949 in coming to its conclusions. It also recommended raising the age limit for the death penalty from 18 to 21 years.

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