MP Sidney Silverman put forward a Private Members bill in 1965. To what did this ultimately lead?
Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 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 Act was introduced to Parliament as a private member's bill by Sydney Silverman MP. The Act provides that charges of capital murder at the time it was passed were to be treated as charges of simple murder and
Sidney B. Silverman Sidney B. Silverman Sidney B. Silverman (born 1932) was a trial lawyer specializing in stockholder actions. He began in 1957 and retired in 2001. Silverman lectured before legal and business groups. In the fall of 1983, he was appointed an adjunct professor at Yale University. After retiring from law, Silverman enrolled in the Graduate School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. Attending classes only in the fall semester, at age seventy four, he obtained a Masters with a concentration in philosophy. Buoyed by his success in graduate school, he turned to chess, a game he had played for