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The Way We Were: The Last Hanging

Series 1138, episode 0

News stories from the past 50 years that have left a lasting impression on the West of England. This edition examines the case of Russell Pascoe - who, in December 1963, became the last man to be hanged in Bristol, for the brutal murder of a Cornish farmer - and explores attitudes to capital punishment on the eve of its abolition