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  1. England loves #legalFictions.

    The last legal #execution in #England was in 1964. #CapitalPunishment for murder was abolished in 1969.

    But killings of convicted people continue at ~ 4/year. No hangman, just other prisoners.

    The recipe is simple. Concentrate vulnerable or despised prisoners in underfunded and under-supervised small spaces with no privacy and no hope. Heat and stir, to watch 300 deaths per year.

    #IanHuntley is just the latest, killed far more brutally than by #execution.

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