Category talk:People executed by England and Wales

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This is a very strange category. I don't think there ever was such a state as England and Wales, it may be an administrative unit today, but the Kingdom of England remained such even when it conquered Wales in the middle ages, until it united with Scotland to form Great Britain in 1707. PatGallacher (talk) 00:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Why strange? England and Wales have had a unified criminal law system since at least 1707—arguably since 1542. See England and Wales. Anyone executed "by England" via the criminal law system since that time has actually been executed by England and Wales. The name of this category thus differentiates it as a subcategory of Category:People executed by England, since there were a fair number executed "by England" (i.e., by the Kingdom of England) before Wales was joined into the same legal system in 1707. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:44, 15 September 2008 (UTC)