From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal (Bristol, England), Saturday, August 30, 1783:
Monday was executed at Hall-Down, near Exeter, John Grinslade, aged 22, for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Gilbert Yarde; and John Cunningham, aged only 17, for the murder of John Pratt. The former expressed sorrow for his offences, and declared he died in charity with all men: The latter, from whose youth and ignorance no great degree of sensibility could be expected, appeared rather stupified than grieved at his fate. Cunningham professed himself a Papist.
On this day..
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- 1945: Seven German POWs - 2017
- 1743: James Hunt and Thomas Collins, Pepper-Alley sodomists - 2016
- 1792: Barnabé Farmian Durosoy, royalist journalist - 2015
- 1944: Durga Malla - 2014
- 1916: Benjamin De Fehr, fragging driver - 2013
- 897: Pope Stephen VII, Cadaver Synod convener - 2012
- 1936: Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, Old Bolsheviks - 2011
- 1972: Vassilis Lymberis, the last executed in Greece - 2010
- 1876: James Murphy, gibbeted - 2009
- 1945: John Birch, Society man - 2008