Executing Traitors
Published • Sep 22, 1994
Authors:
Vic Gatrell
Abstract
Abstract 1820 Saw The Last Executions For High Treason In The Old fashioned way. In that year eight men were publicly hanged and decapi tated. Five of them had led the plot laid in Cato Street to assassinate the Cabinet at dinner; they were executed before a Newgate crowd of 100,000 on 1 May. The ot...
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