British Executions

Benjamin Killingback

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 27 Apr 1748

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Sussex

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Benjamin Killingback found guilty on an indictment for the murder of Henry Collier, a dragoon, by stabbing him in the left side of his belly, with a sword in the parish of Hastings on 8th May 1747 so that he died the following day.  No reprieve traced.