Liam Holden: Last man sentenced to death in North dies

A WEST Belfast man – who was the last man sentenced to death in the North – has died. Liam Holden, who was 68, died on Thursday. At the age of 18 he was sentenced to hang for the 1972 murder of a British soldier. He had been arrested under the Special Powers Act and claimed that while in custody, he was coerced into confessing to the killing of Private Frank Bell. 

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