The last execution in the United Kingdom took place in 1964.
Up until that time, public executions were a popular form of live entertainment, second only to association football and ballroom dancing.
This snap, from 1949, at the hanging of the 'acid bath murderer', John Haigh, shows regular spectators, Elsie and Bert Nesbit enjoying the spectacle.
Elsie and Bert rarely missed an execution, until Elsie's death in 1957.
Bert was hung for Elsie's murder in 1960.
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