British Executions

Benjamin Hoskins

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 24 Mar 1791

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Monmouthshire

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Thursday, 24 March 1791 (Gloucester Journal)

Benjamin Hoskins guilty of the murder of his son Benjamin Hoskins the younger by throwing him into the river Wye in the parish of Chepstow on 14th February 1790 so that he drowned herein.