Catherine Murphy (counterfeiter)
The last woman in England to have been sentenced to be burnt at the stake.
Albert Pierrepoint
English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956.
Bloody Code
The Bloody Code is a name given to the system of crimes and punishments in force in England during the 18th and early 19th centuries that resulted in the death penalty for offences that would today be considered minor.
Burning of women in England
Burning was a legal punishment imposed on women found guilty of high treason, petty treason or heresy. Over a period of several centuries, female convicts were publicly burnt at the stake, sometimes alive, for a range of activities including coining and mariticide.
De heretico comburendo
Law passed in 1401 during the reign of King Henry IV, allowing heretics to be burned alive.
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Statutory penalty in England from 1352 for men convicted of high treason.
Catherine Hayes
Catherine Hayes née Hall (1690–1726), was the last woman in England to be executed by being burned alive.
William Calcraft
19th-century English hangman, one of the most prolific British executioners.
Halifax Gibbet
Early guillotine, or decapitating machine, used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was probably installed during the 16th century as an alternative to beheading by axe or sword.
Bartholomew Binns
English executioner from November 1883 to March 1884.
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