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Hanging of a buccaneer at Execution Dock. Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.
[70] [nb 9] The practice of using London Bridge in this manner ended following the hanging, drawing, and quartering in 1678 of William Staley, a victim of the fictitious Popish Plot. His quarters were given to his relatives, who promptly arranged a "grand" funeral; this incensed the coroner so much that he ordered the body to be dug up and set ...
His execution was the last public hanging in the UK. 1 April 1872: William Frederick Horry was hanged at Lincoln Castle. This was the first execution in history to use the long drop method of hanging. 24 March 1873: Serial killer Mary Ann Cotton was hanged at Durham Gaol for the murder of her stepson.
Holinshed, Raphael (1808), Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, vol. 4, London: Johnson Jesse, John Heneage (1847), Literary and historical memorials of London , vol. 2, Bentley Northcote Parkinson, C. (1976), Gunpowder Treason and Plot , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-77224-4
Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey, just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate, a gate in the Roman London Wall. Built in the 12th century and demolished in 1904, the prison was extended and rebuilt many times, and remained in use for over 700 years, from 1188 to 1902.
In London in the early 19th century, there might have been 5,000 to watch a standard hanging, but crowds of up to 100,000 came to see a famous felon killed. The numbers hardly changed over the years. An estimated 20,000 watched Rainey Bethea hang in 1936, in what turned out to be the last public execution in the U.S." [ 32 ]
Marie Manning, an image from the contemporary popular press Marie Manning in The Chronicles of Newgate. Marie Manning (née de Roux; c. 1821 – 13 November 1849) [1] was a Swiss domestic servant who was hanged on the roof of London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol on 13 November 1849, after she and her husband were convicted of the murder of her lover, Patrick O'Connor, in the case that became known ...
James Berry (8 February 1852 – 21 October 1913) was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where his father worked as a wool-stapler.