Execution Dock His remains were gibbeted by the river Thames at Tilbury for three years. George Davis and William Watts, convicted for piracy for the "Cyprus" mutiny, were the final hangings at the dock on 16 December 1830. Some sources state there is a large "E" on the Thames side of the building at Swan Wharf, indicating the site of Execution Dock. Another source states it was approximately where the London Overground station now stands. Execution Dock Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute
Hanged, drawn and quartered upon the city gates. Staley's was the last head to be placed on London Bridge. Another victim of the Popish Plot, Oliver Plunkett the Archbishop of Armagh, was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn in July 1681. His executioner was bribed so that Plunket's body parts were saved from the fire; the head is now displayed at St Peter's Church in Drogheda. Francis Towneley and several other captured Jacobite officers involved in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 were executed, but by then the executioner possessed some discretion as to how much they should suffer and thus they were killed before