Capital punishment in the United Kingdom espionage from "all spies for the enemy" to spies on naval ships or bases. Later, the Armed Forces Act 1981 abolished the death penalty for espionage. (The Official Secrets Act 1911 had created another offence of espionage which carried a maximum sentence of fourteen years.) Beheading was abolished as a method of execution for treason in 1973. Hanging, however, remained available until 1998 when, under a House of Lords amendment to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, proposed by Lord Archer of Sandwell, the death penalty was abolished for treason and piracy with violence, replacing it with a discretionary maximum
United Nations moratorium on the death penalty not to reintroduce it; 4. "Requests" the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution; 5. "Decides" to continue consideration of the matter at its sixty-third session under the same agenda item. "The General Assembly," "Reaffirming" its resolution 62/149 of 18 December 2007 on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, "Welcoming" the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions and the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty, 1. "Welcomes" the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation