British Executions

John Edmunds

Age: 24

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 3 Jul 1909

Crime Location: Garnwen Farm, Abersychan, Pontypool

Execution Place: Usk

Method: hanging

Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4143702

John Edmunds was convicted of the murder of Cecilia Harris 59 and sentenced to death.

He shot her and cut her throat at Garnwen Farm, Abersychan, near Pontypool on 20 February 1909. She died two and a half months later from natural causes.

see National Archives - HO 144/913/179216, ASSI 6/44/2

see Homicide 1909