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Death was formerly the penalty for all felonies in English law. In practice the death penalty was never applied as widely as the law provided .Many offenders who committed capital crimes were allowed as benefit of clergy.The offenders who here ordained priests were subject to trial by the church courts. If the offender convicted of a felony could show that he had been ordained, he was allowed to go free, subject to the possibility of being punished by the eclessiastical courts.Until the mid-19th century execution in England were public and great crowds attended the regular executions in London and other cities. But public opinion eventually turned against the idea of the executions as spectacles and after 1868 executions were carried out in private in prisons.