Age:
Sex: male
Crime: Sodomy
Date Of Execution: 3 Feb 1820
Execution Place: Rochester Common
Method: hanging
Executioner:
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1800.html
Duncan Livingstone was convicted of an unatural crime, sodomy, and hung on Rochester Common. He was convicted at the Quarter Sessions held at the Guildhall in Rochester, Kent on 18 January 1820.
He had for committed 'an unnatural crime' [sodomy] on the person of Thomas Pointer (14/15 years) of Chatham on 18 December 1819.
Evidence was supplied by Thomas Pointer, John Erridge, Thomas Spooner, watchman and Ely Hoyle.
There are 2 covering letters; a certificate of conviction for the prisoner; and a statement of the date of execution, 3 February 1820 from the town clerk of Rochester.
Initial sentence: death. Recommendation: no mercy.
He was a bagpipe player.
It was the last execution in Rochester.
see Salisbury and Winchester Journal - Monday 31 January 1820
see National Archives - HO 47/59/1
