Why public executions were abolished

GCSE · History · OCR · P1.CP.3 — Industrial reform: Robert Peel, the Metropolitan Police, prison reform (Pentonville) and abolition of the bloody code

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Explain why public executions were abolished in 1868. [4 marks]

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