William Bentley tells his son that no-one had been hanged in the 20th century where the jury recommended mercy and the Judge agreed. He may have been trying to comfort his son, but the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1953) Cmd 8932, note 5 on page 11, states that there had been six such cases in England and one in Scotland between 1900 and 1949 when this had happened.
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