Victoriakorset kan aldrig fratages en modtager, uanset hvilken forbrydelse han har udøvet. En dødsdømt Victoriakors-modtager kunne bære sin dekoration under [[Henrettelse|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"''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716121642/http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/vc/page3.shtml |date=16. juli 2007 }} Hentet d. 7. januar 2009</ref>.
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