Britain's brutal executions - Nazi spy, murderous nude model, and wrongful conviction
dailystar.co.ukRead more: Disabled man in wheelchair mowed down and dragged into road as driver refused to stopGrisly methods included death by hanging, often in public, and firing squad.Laws changed following penal reforms and in 1832, the death penalty was abolished for crimes including theft, counterfeiting and forgery.
Gibbeting - or public hangings in gallows - was also stopped.The last executions in the UK took place in 1965 before capital punishment was suspended for murder in 1965 and finally abolished for murder in 1969.
It remained for offences including treason and espionage, but no death penalties were carried out after the abolition of the death penalty for murder.
Full and final abolition came in 1998.Here, we've taken a look at some of the UK's most brutal executions....Elizabeth Osborne was one of many women to have been executed in the UK in the 19th Century.She was hanged in front of a large crowd in Cornwall after setting her former employer's mow of corn on fire in 1813.The 20-year-old had been sacked three years earlier and, still harbouring a grudge, decided to set the mow of corn ablaze.
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