Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries.

18th century.

Executions at London's Tyburn 1695 -1783 – full list

English & Welsh executions by circuit 1735 - 1799

Being hanged at Tyburn

The female executed 1735 - 1799

Overview of executions at Tyburn

Sarah Malcolm - triple murder

Burning at the stake

Jenny Diver - highway robbery

Catherine Hayes - burnt for Petty Treason

Elizabeth Jeffries - murder of her uncle

Ann Bedingfield & Richard Ringe - Petty Treason

Mary Blandy - patricide

Phoebe Harris - burnt for coining

Elizabeth Brownrig - horrible murder of her servant

Hanged at Execution Dock

Earl of Ferrers - first use of "New Drop" gallows

Newgate executions 1783 – 1799

 

Introduction to the Bloody Code

Elizabeth Taylor - hanged for burglary

Charlotte Gardiner & Mary Jones - rioters

Mary Jones - hanged for shoplifting

Sarah Lloyd - hanged for robbery

Elizabeth Sedgwick – hanged for arson

19th century.

Newgate prison history

English & Welsh executions 1800 – 1827

Being hanged at Newgate

English & Welsh executions 1828 – 1836

Newgate executions 1800 - 1836

English & Welsh executions 1837 – 1868

Newgate executions 1837 - 1902

English & Welsh executions 1868 - 1899

Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey

Scottish executions 1800 - 1899

John Thurtell - murder at Ware

Bel M’Menemy & Thomas Connor - robbery

The female publicly hanged 1800 - 1868

Helen Blackwood – married on the gallows

Ann Hurle -  hanged for forgery

Sarah Dazley – hanged for poisoning her husband

Melinda Mapson - hanged for housebreaking

Murderesses hanged in private 1869 – 1955

Eliza Fenning - hanged for attempted murder

Kate Webster

Elizabeth Fricker - hanged for burglary

Mary Eleanor Wheeler (Pearcey)

Jane Scott – hanged for parricide

Louisa Masset

Maria & Frederick Manning - murder for gain

Baby farmers

Elizabeth Martha Browne - husband murder

 

Ann Lawrence - child murder

 

Frances Kidder -
the last female public hanging

 

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