Had they hung them, they would never have even the chance of finding the grave, the significance of those photos would have been missed because Hindley would not have been alive to ask her mother for those specific slides. Enforcing the death penalty on them both would have removed any chance at all of ever finding the missing graves or laying their other crimes at their doors.

Although it is a bit much that the human rights of a convicted criminal take precidence over the human rights of the children he murdered.

LTS