Aftermath
After the execution, Queen Victoria was petitioned to put an end to the death penalty. She declined, and it wasn't until 1993 that Tynwald abolished capital punishment in the Isle of Man. Five people were sentenced to death (for murder) on the island between 1973 and 1992 but all death sentences after Kewish's were commuted to life imprisonment by the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom using the Crown's Prerogative of Mercy.
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