Derek Bentley was indeed a travesty of justice, how could he murder someone when in police custody having been caught before Craig pulled the trigger. The words " let him have it Chris" I believe meant give the policeman the gun, not shoot the policeman. As Cassandra said Derek Bently was learning disabled, am I right in thinking there was an appeal fairly recently by Derek's family that was refused?
There are people who I think dodged the noose after capital punishment was abolished, Brady and Hindley for example. But unless someone is caught red handed and there is 100% no doubt they did it, I wouldn't like to hang them, there have been too many innocent and unfairly hung people to justify it.
Not a very Christmasy, supposed to be thinking of Christmas presents.