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"Let him have it, Chris"

Derek Bentley was hanged for saying those words.

His friend Chris Craig shot a policeman dead after he said those words.

When Bentley said "Let him have it Chris" did he mean let him (the policeman) have the gun or let him have a bullet?

Obviously Bentley was wrongly hanged in 1953.

40 years later in 1993, Bentley received a posthumous Royal pardon. And in 1998 his murder conviction was quashed.


It's cases like this where the death penalty fails. So as much as I'd like to see evil monsters put down, it's for the best that they're just locked in cages for the rest of their days or until new evidence proves them not guilty.