Victoriakorset: Forskelle mellem versioner

Under perioden hvor dødsstraf forekom, eksempelvis i England, kunne en dødsdømt kriminel ''Victoria Cross'' modtager, blive hængt og i henhold til gældende bestemmelse tillades at bære sin dekoration under [[eksekvere|eksekvering]] af dommen<ref>[http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/vc/page3.shtml ‘The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold’.] Hentet d. 7. januar 2009</ref>.