British Executions

Samuel Hill

Age:

Sex: male

Crime: Highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 8 May 1801

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Cardiff Heath

Method: hanging

Executioner:

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1800.html

Glamorgan

Friday, 8 May 1801

Samuel Hill on 23 September 1800 rioting in the parish of Merthyr Tydfil:  broke into the dwelling house of John Charles Bannister, putting his wife, Frances, in fear, and stealing a gold guinea (WALES 4/630/7).