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• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > [citation needed] Well, the death penalty was abolished in the U.K. in the 1990s, so there's that. More significant: habeus corpus, which goes back to somewhere between the Magna Carta and Interregnum. Even at its height, the Crown's power to unilaterally command executions was intentionally curtailed for centuries.