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When did Queen Elizabeth II grant Alan Turing a posthumous royal pardon?
Gordon Brown apologised in 2009; the royal pardon was granted on 24 December 2013; the 2017 Alan Turing Law extended automatic pardons to about 49,000 other men.
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The Mathematician Who Broke Enigma, Was Chemically Castrated by His Own Government, and Died Beside a Half-Eaten Apple Alan Turing was found dead at his Wilmslow home on 8 June 1954, aged 41. The coroner ruled suicide by cyanide poisoning; a half-eaten apple lay beside the bed. The Crown Prosecution Service had convicted him of gross indecency two years earlier and ordered chemical castration as an alternative to prison. The pardon arrived in 2013.
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