when was the last execution in the uk

The last executions in the UK took place on August 13, 1964. Two men, Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, were hanged for the murder of John Alan West. Evans was executed at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and Allen at Walton Prison in Liverpool, both at 8:00 am simultaneously. These were the final judicial executions carried out on British soil before the death penalty for murder was suspended and later abolished in the UK.