Another great hang-day post today from the Facebook page of our friends at Capital Punishment UK, in which we discover one Joseph Jones, teetering on the edge of destitution,
hanged at Stafford on the morning of Tuesday the 26th of March 1907. Henry Pierrepoint and William Willis carried out the execution. Jones is reported to have told Pierrepoint “This is a damned sight better than the workhouse.”
On this day..
- 1689: Gabriel Milan, Danish West Indies governor
- 1720: Antoine-Joseph de Horn, humanity from an executioner
- 1437: Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl
- 1785: Three at Shrewsbury, in depraved times
- 1822: Hannah Halley, scalding infanticide
- 1913: Henry Lovell William Clark, Raj poisoner
- 1907: Emile Dubois, Valparaiso popular saint
- 1555: William Hunter, reader
- 1918: Emile Ferfaille, the last in Belgium
- 1910: Ahn Jung-geun, Korean nationalist
- 1697: Godfrey McCulloch, on the maiden
- 922: Mansur al-Hallaj, Sufi mystic