British Executions

Thomas Nicholson

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 31 Aug 1767

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Carlisle

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Monday 31 August 1767 (Newcastle Courant (Courier))

Thomas Nicholson

Guilty of the murder of Thomas Parker by beating him with a stone in the parish of Edenhall on 19th November 1766.

Hanged in chains on Carlton Fell

His execution and the subsequent hanging of his body in chains is reported in the Newcastle Courant (Courier).