Last Teen Execution

Last Teen Execution

In 1849, 17-year-old Sarah Thomas became Britain's last teenage girl to be hanged. Found guilty of killing her employer. Sarah was dragged screaming and crying to the gallows, pleading for her life. So distressing was the scene that the prison governor even fainted.

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