British Executions

John Bowland

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 20 Jul 1769

Crime Location:

Execution Place: unknown

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Thursday, 20 July 1769 Mount Pleasant. Oakham (Leicester Journal)   

John Bowland for the highway robbery of a mail coach near Stamford.  After execution his body was hanged in chains on Empington Common.