On This Day: 1969, MPs vote to abolish hanging

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

MPs voted by a big majority for the permanent abolition of the death penalty for murder.

A great cheer went up in the Commons as the final result was announced shortly before midnight. The voting was 343 in favour, 185 against, a majority of 158, to permanently end hanging in Britain.
The decision came at the end of a seven-and-a-half hour debate which saw the Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, the Conservative leader, Edward Heath, and Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe go through the same lobby to support abolition.
Under the terms of the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 hanging was suspended for an experimental period of five years. This result meant it's unlikely to be brought back.

(BBC News History)

[erupt]

Two questions that somebody could hopefully answer:

1.) How long and when did the royal family have their own unquestioned administration concerning hangings and beheadings, for example the queen demanding a beheading?

2.) When this "Murder Act" was passed, was their an unsaid precedent beforehand where the number of hangings was either stagnant or drastically reduced (this has no effect on my judgement of the situation, of course)?

[Geiseric]

7 hours? Fuck that shit, I would of just been like "hanging people is fucked up bro."