Executed

This new documentary for ITV marks 50 years since the last two men to be hanged in Britain were executed simultaneously and retells the stories of those put to death by the state.

From the innocent Timothy Evans to the guilty Ruth Ellis, who killed in a crime of passion, Executed hears from the relatives who survived them and those who witnessed the final days of capital punishment.

Visiting prisons where death sentences were carried out up to its abolition - and explaining that after being sentenced to death prisoners lived for only three more weeks before being taken to the gallows - Executed also takes a close look at how the condemned would have spent their final days and the procedures and techniques employed by the executioners.

Together these stories provide a vivid insight into the executions carried out in living memory in the UK - cases that would shock the nation and help bring about the end of capital punishment.

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