"Let Him Have it, Chris"

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I am also opposed to the death penalty and worry about so many young men in death row in the USA ( very young men ) who maybe never got a chance in life to become anything other that what they grew to be. It was on the evidence of four words - Let him have it - that Derek Bentley was sent to the gallows in 1953.

Bentley's defence claimed he was already under arrest at the time the shots were fired and was simply urging Craig to give up his gun. Lord Goddard forwarded the jury's recommendation of mercy, but added that he himself "could find no mitigating circumstances". The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In sum, while Bentley was unarmed, and did not shoot the cop, he received a greater punishment than the shooter.

happened; Fairfax said to Craig "Hand over the gun, lad" and Bentley replied "Let him have it, Chris". There was also the question of what Bentley had meant by the words “let him have it” – the jury decided that the boy, inspired by gangster movies he had seen, had meant for Craig to shoot. Did Christopher Craig shoot and kill Constable Miles, or was it a dreadful accident by someone else on the roof, an accident that needed covering up? In 1948, Bentley and another youth were arrested for theft and sentenced to three years at Kingswood Training School on what is now Kennard Road, Bristol.

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