Hanging at Robin Hood's Bay

koster | 23:21 Wed 05th Jul 2006 | History

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Someone told me that the last (public?) hanging was at Robin Hood's Bay. Is there any truth in this?

Dracula Grave in Whitby

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dotty.

not the last public hanging with a verdict and senetence in a court of law
http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/palm er/the%20hanging.htm

maybe the last illegal lynching?

chijiki

The last public hanging in the UK was:
26th of May 1868. Last fully public hanging in England. Michael Barrett at Newgate for the Fenian bombing at Clerkenwell which killed 7 people.

then on 29th of May 1868. Parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill, ending public hanging as such, and requiring executions to be carried out behind prison walls.

Courtesy of this site: http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/ti meline.html

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