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Fifty years ago an Act of Parliament led to the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. It followed a series of high profile cases in the 1950s including that of Derek Bentley. He was just 19 years old when he was hanged for the murder of a policeman during a burglary; his conviction was quashed by the Appeal Court in 1998. Derek's niece, Maria Bentley-Dingwall told the programme how the battle to clear his name led her to become a human rights activist.
We also heard from death penalty expert Julian Knowles QC, and former prison officer Robert Douglas, who guarded murderer Russell Pascoe, one of the last men to be hanged in this country.