what punishment was given to them for that?
mutiny and another offence of failing to suppress or report a mutiny were each punishable with death.
Mutiny
Until 1998 mutiny and another offence of failing to suppress or report a mutiny were each punishable with death.
when did mutiny on the bounty take place 28 April 1789 what did the mutineers want? They seized control of the ship
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Mutiny [SEP] Sentence
Until 1998 mutiny and another offence of failing to suppress or report a mutiny were each punishable with death. Section 21(5) of the Human Rights Act 1998 completely abolished the death penalty in the United Kingdom. (Prior to this, the death penalty had already been abolished for murder, but it had remained in force for certain military offences and treason, although no executions had been carried out for several decades.) This provision was not required by the European Convention on Human Rights, since Protocol 6 of the Convention permitted the death penalty in time of war, and Protocol 13, which prohibits the death penalty for all circumstances, did not then exist.