About law: Under this law Gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales are to receive posthumous pardons.
Explanation: The law is named after Alan Turing, the computer scientist who was instrumental in cracking intercepted coded messages during World War II and was convicted of gross indecency in 1952. The Alan Turing law provides not only a posthumous pardon but also an automatic formal pardon for living people.
