<P> However, no executions were carried out in the United Kingdom for any of these offences after the abolition of the death penalty for murder . </P> <P> Nevertheless, there remained a working gallows at HMP Wandsworth, London, until 1994, which was tested every six months until 1992 . This gallows is now housed in the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham . </P> <P> England and in the United Kingdom: on 13 August 1964, Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, were executed for the murder of John Alan West on 7 April that year . </P> <P> Scotland: Henry John Burnett, 21, on 15 August 1963 in Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen, for the murder of seaman Thomas Guyan . </P>

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