British Executions

Jeremiah OConnor

Age: 52

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 23 Feb 1909

Crime Location: West Stanley, Oxhill

Execution Place: Durham

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Jeremiah OConnor was convicted of the murder of Mary Donnelly 10 and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her to death in West Stanley on 14 December 1908. Her body was found five days later on 20 December 1908 in a field about a quarter of a mile from her home.

see National Archives - HO 144/901/175218

see Homicide 1909