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As a 19-year-old Miller was legally an adult, and because the murder had taken place during the course of a robbery (Cremin had been robbed of his watch, bankbook and £67), [5] he was eligible for the death penalty under the terms of the Homicide Act 1957. Accordingly, he was sentenced to death by Lord Wheatley, the trial judge. However, as a ...
He was also a film cameraman, as well as director and producer, for Ogam Films, which he founded with three friends in 1967. In the 1960s and 70s, he worked on documentary films for the Films of Scotland Committee and the Highlands and Islands Development Board. [5] Gorbals Boys sculpture in Glasgow, based on a Marzaroli photograph
The death penalty was mandatory (although it was frequently commuted by the government) until the Judgement of Death Act 1823 gave judges the official power to commute the death penalty except for treason and murder. The Punishment of Death, etc. Act 1832 reduced the number of capital crimes by two-thirds.
The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 [1] (c. 71) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished the death penalty for murder in Great Britain (the death penalty for murder survived in Northern Ireland until 1973). The act replaced the penalty of death with a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life.
The following day he was found strangled to death on the site of a demolished vicarage on Tavistock Road, Croydon. [134] January 1960 Emily Tharme Poole, Dorset 44-year-old Tharme went missing in January 1960. [135] Her body was later found in Wheelers Lane. [136] January 1960: Eva Booth: Hartley, Plymouth, Devon
On the evening of 28 March 1960, a fire started in a bonded warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith and Company in Cheapside Street, Anderston, Glasgow.. The Glasgow Fire Service was initially alerted by a 999 call at 7:15 pm from the foreman of the Eldorado Ice Cream Company, which was near the whisky bond.
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
The Sixties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on May 29, 2014. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman 's studio Playtone , the 10-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s.