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Question: When was gibbeting abolished in the UK!?
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Public executions stopped in 1868 and the hanging, beheading and quartering of traitors ended in 1870!.
Less than one century later, Parliament voted to suspend for five years the death penalty for murder when it passed Sidney Silverman's Private Member's Bill in 1965!.

Another vote in 1969 finally made the abolition of the death penalty for murder permanent in Great Britain!. A further vote in 1973 abolished it permanently in Northern Ireland!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1843, although I don't know the name of the Act!. Take a look at the linked sources for more answers to your capital punishment questions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

England outlawed gibbeting in 1843!.

The last two men gibbeted in England were William Jobling and James Cook, both in 1832!.

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