Section 2 Executions to be within prison.
United Kingdom
Judgment of death to be executed on any prisoner sentenced on any indictment or inquisition for murder shall be carried into effect within the walls of the prison in which the offender is confined at the time of execution.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed, except as applied by any other enactment, by Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 (c. 71), s. 3, Sch.; and Act repealed in so far as still in force (9.11.1998) by virtue of Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42), ss. 21(5), 22(2) (with ss. 7(8), 22(5))