michael barrett was the last public execution in britain.
when was the last public execution in britain?
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bullet::::- 29 april 1862: mary timney's hanging was the last public execution of a woman in scotland.





























bullet::::- 14 november 1864: franz muller was hanged for the murder of thomas briggs, the first murder committed on a british train.





























bullet::::- 2 april 1868: frances kidder was the last woman to be hanged in public in britain.





























bullet::::- 26 may 1868: fenian michael barrett was executed at newgate prison for mass murder. he had participated in the clerkenwell explosion, which had killed 12 people. his execution was the last public hanging in the uk.
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frances larson wrote in her 2014 book "severed: a history of heads lost and heads found:""for as long as there were public executions, there were crowds to see them. in london in the early 19th century, there might have been 5,000 to watch a standard hanging, but crowds of up to 100,000 came to see a famous felon killed. the numbers hardly changed over the years. an estimated 20,000 watched rainey bethea hang in 1936, in what turned out to be the last public execution in the u.s."according to amnesty international, in 2012 "public executions were known to have been carried out in iran, north korea, saudi arabia and somalia." amnesty international does not include syria, afghanistan, and yemen in their list of public execution countries, but there have been reports of public executions carried out there by state and non-state actors, such as isis. executions which can be classified as public were also carried out in the u.s. states of florida and utah as of 1992.
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