I can still remember the morning they hanged Derek Bentley - he was only a few years older than we were, and it was all over the papers because he hadn't actually done the killing, and was in police custody at the time. But the boy who did do it,Christopher Craig was too young to hang, since he was only 16 at the time.

There was a strange sense of excitement around as it came up to the hanging time.

Thank God we're never going to get that in England , or indeed in the European Union, ever again.

Of course Derek Bentley was pardoned in the end, last year. More than 40 years after he was killed.

Christopher Craig, I believe, became a plumber, and had a family, and he's retired now, but he's kept out of the limelight all his life, and he never got into any kind of trouble after he was released.

He'd have been old enough to be executed in a very few countries. Including the USA.