British Executions

Thomas Otley

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 27 Jul 1752

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Rushmere

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Thomas Otley guilty of the murder of his wife.  After execution his body was hanged in chains on Black Close Hill on the road between Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket.