the last burning at the stake in england was in 1789.
the last burning at the stake in england was in 1789.
when was the last burning at the stake in england?
1789
the burning in 1789 of catherine murphy, for coining, received practically no attention from the newspapers (perhaps owing to practical limitations on how much news they could publish across only four pages), but it may have been enacted by sir benjamin hammett, a former sheriff of london. hammett was also an mp, and in 1790 he introduced to parliament a "bill for altering the sentence of burning women". he denounced the punishment as "the savage remains of norman policy" which "disgraced our statutes", as "the practice did the common law". he also highlighted how a sheriff who refused to carry out the sentence was liable to prosecution. william wilberforce and hammett were not the first men to attempt to end the burning of women. almost 140 years earlier, during the interregnum, a group of lawyers and laymen known as the hale commission (after its chairman matthew hale), was tasked by the house of commons to take "into consideration what inconveniences there are in the law". among the proposed reforms was the replacement of burning at the stake with hanging, but, mainly through the objections of various interested parties, none of the commission's proposals made it into law during the rump parliament. hammett was confident though. he believed that public opinion was on his side and that "the house would go with him in the cause of humanity". the change in execution venues, from tyburn to newgate, also attracted criticism. following phoebe harris's burning in 1786, as well as questioning the inequality of english law "the times" complained about the location of the punishment and its effect on locals:
burning of women in england
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