British Executions

Thomas Herring

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: horse stealing

Date Of Execution: 10 Apr 1756

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Rushmere

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Thomas Herring guilty of stealing a horse, the property of John Locker.  (There is a reprieve in his name date 23.7.56 but his execution is reported as ordered for the 10th April in the Ipswich Journal of 10th April and confirmed as carried out in the Norwich Mercury of 17th April).