Crime & Legislation
Spanning criminals, prisons and the Metropolitan Police, find out about London’s laws and its lawbreakers in our objects, stories and blogs.
Top-Results
Top-Results
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Executions & death-penalty reforms in Britain
How 18th-century British reformers questioned capital punishment and the fight continues today
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Six things you didn’t know about executions in London
London’s courts condemned more people to die than the rest of England, and six facts you may not know
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
Who was publicly executed in London?
Thirteen tales of the cooks, rebels, bankers and king who died in front of a watching crowd
