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Originally Posted by Oberon

Let's just quantify that.

The executions in England were in fact at a US run prison at Shepton Mallet under US law.

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/sheptonm.html

Rape did not carry the death penalty in the UK at that time, only murder and treason did IIRC.

NO! NO! it's QUALIFY! but perhaps I over-emphasize the Pierrepoint of the argument The last one, Anicito Martinez, a(New Mexican Hispanic with a poor appointed lawyer?) probably appreciated the distinction of being the last military hanging by a skilled professional to avoid the often botched American hangman's work(Nuremburg??!!)

The normal U.S. Army method of hanging was not permitted in England and this was confirmed by Albert Pierrepoint, in his autobiography. Most of the normal American execution customs were allowed however. Executions by hanging were normally carried out at 1.00 a.m. in the morning of the specified day. (Shooting executions were carried out around 8.00 a.m.) The British method of hanging was used, there was no standard drop and no hangmen's coiled noose, but an exactly calculated drop using a British style eyelet noose."

Methinks If the Brits could quibble about the 'modus' on home turf they could also have quibbled more diligently about the 'operendi' as well....but good Allies are hard to come by... And talk about "swept under the carpet er greensward" afterwards:

All of the American service members put to death in the austere British prison—16 by hanging and two by firing squad—were initially buried in unmarked graves at Brookwood Cemetery, some 83 miles west of their place of execution. In 1948 all 18 sets of remains were ordered transferred to the Oise-Anse American Cemetery in France—a burial place for U.S. dead from World War I—as were the remains of the 52 other men executed elsewhere in the European Theater and several put to death after the war for crimes committed while stationed in Europe. All of the remains were buried in a section of the cemetery referred to as Plot E, which is separate from the main facility and hidden in thick forest. There the executed American servicemen—known collectively as “the dishonorable dead”—lie beneath small markers bearing only numbers.

No 'dishonorable' lynched in Albion by George!