British Executions

Edward Smith

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 6 Mar 1760

Crime Location:

Execution Place: York

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Edward Smith guilty of the murder of Samuel Lund on 22nd November 1757.  Lund was attacked in the streets of York with a sword and received a wound in his belly near the short ribs of which he died on 25th November. A city execution.