the last person in the uk to be executed was 1964.
the last person in the uk to be executed was 1964.
who was the last person in the uk to be executed?
1964
ronald wolfe (rapist)









































ronald wolfe was the last person executed in the united states for non-homicidal rape, and second-to-last put to death for crime other than murder (the last was james coburn, electrocuted in alabama the same year for robbery). he was also second-to-last person executed in missouri before the u.s. moratorium on capital punishment.









































wolfe, a 34-year-old man, was put to death in missouri's gas chamber on may 8, 1964. he was convicted of brutal attack of an 8-year-old girl on october 18, 1959 near troy, missouri, just 3 days after his release from the federal penitentiary in georgia.
ronald wolfe (rapist)
sixteen people were shot by firing squad or hanged for treachery. the first british subject to be executed under the law was george johnson armstrong, who was hanged at hmp wandsworth on 10 july 1941. duncan scott-ford was also executed for treachery in november 1942. german agent josef jakobs, the last person to be executed in the tower of london, was court-martialled and executed by firing squad under this act. the last person to be executed under the treachery act was the british soldier theodore schurch, executed on 4 january 1946, who was the last person to be executed in the united kingdom for an offence other than murder.
treachery act 1940