Lady Justice True Crime
In an episode written by listener, Daniel Carr, we explore Mary Read and Anne Bonny; who were two of the most famous female English pirates of all time, and among the very few women tried for piracy in the early 18th century, during the height of the Golden Age of Piracy..
The executioner John Thrift was a hated man in London and even carried out the last beheading in English history. Curiously he was convicted of murder himself – yet was back at work as hangman merely months later.
Thrift at this time strike the deceased one blow on the left side of the head with a hanger
William Carrier
Lady Justice True Crime