British Executions

John Pope

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 13 Aug 1790

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Heavitree Gallows

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Friday, 13 August 1790  (Exeter Flying Post)

John Pope guilty of the highway robbery of Nicholas Gill in the parish of Stoke Damerel on 22nd April 1790: robbing him of 2 gold guineas, a gold half guinea and 3/- in money numbered.