Death Sentence

[cheshiremog]

Thanks both - rather gruesome accounts !!

I have passed the info on to my friend

Thank you

[mosiefish]

Hi,

This site has from 1735 but I can`t see him.  Perhaps 1735 is too late. 

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/contents.html

Regards,
Mo

[Valda]

Hi

Public hangings in this country ceased in 1868. Wikipedia says rightly or wrongly the Gallows Inn was so named because a gallows stood there in the C17th. It seems less likely you would be hanging outside an inn much after that. Later hangings usually ocurred near a prison though Tyburn was still used up to 1783. Hangings after that were outside Newgate prison.


Regards

Valda

[cheshiremog]

In answer to my own question to a degree, is it possible that there was a 'Gallows' were human remains (or parts thereof) were hung as a 'warning' rather than the actual execution itself?

Mog.

[Valda]

Hi

'The last two men gibbeted in England were William Jobling and James Cook, both in 1832.'

'In 1834 England outlawed gibbeting.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet


Gibbetting had been on the wane for years.

'As a result of pressure from anatomists, especially in the rapidly growing medical schools, the Murder Act 1752 allowed the bodies of executed murderers to be dissected for anatomical research and education.'


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissection


Regards

Valda