On this date in 1772, Mary Hilton was burned at the stake in Lancaster for “petty treason”: poisoning with arsenic her husband, John, a blacksmith.
She was drawn on a sledge to the execution site, hanged to death as a mercy, and her body burnt to ashes.
On this day..
- 1844: John Gavin, the first European hanged in Western Australia - 2020
- 1196: William FitzOsbert, medieval rebel - 2019
- 1489: Hans Waldmann, mayor of Zurich - 2018
- 1724: Sister Geltruda and Fra Romualdo, at a Palermo auto de fe - 2017
- 1985: Major Zin Mo, failed assassin - 2016
- 1571: James Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews and uncle of a crack shot - 2014
- 1752: Mary Blandy, "forgiveness powder" - 2013
- 1857: Francis Richeux, witnessed by Tolstoy - 2012
- 1945: Kim Malthe-Bruun, Yours, but not forever - 2011
- 1199: Pierre Basile, marksman - 2010
- 1758: William Page, forgotten highwayman - 2009
- 1888: Jochin Henry Timmerman, "don't let them take you alive" - 2008