Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "Chris Daw QC: Legalise drugs and close the prisons" video.

Chris Daw claimed that an eight year old was hanged in Victorian times in England. I haven't read his book but this is an extremely dubious claim. Sometimes the age of criminals was not known exactly and criminals sometimes claimed to be younger than was plausible (just as asylum seekers do now) but when teenagers were hanged, this was noteworthy and only happened for the most serious crimes. If an eight year old were actually hanged much less a mass hanging of children as he claims, it's hard to see how this wouldn't be common knowledge. Since Chris Daw has covered this in his book, either he's being sloppy with the facts or he's deliberately misleading for effect.
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