British Executions

William Woods

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: arson

Date Of Execution: 3 Apr 1742

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Dorset

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Saturday, 3 April 1742 (Gloucester Journal)

William Woods guilty of maliciously setting fire to a barn, the property of James Oxford.