Age: 39
Sex: male
Crime: treason
Date Of Execution: 3 Jan 1946
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Albert Pierrepoint
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom
William Joyce, better known as "Lord Haw-Haw", for treason in London's Wandsworth Prison. He was an American citizen, but was convicted of treason because, as the holder of a British passport (albeit fraudulently obtained), he was held to have owed allegiance to the British sovereign. Theodore Schurch, hanged for treachery the next day, was the last person to be executed for an offence other than murder; he was executed at Pentonville. As a member of the armed forces he had been tried by court-martial.
